Susan Choi: Flashlight

In this insightful conversation, Susan Choi joins Beejay Silcox to discuss her 2025 Booker Prize–shortlisted novel and the themes that animate it – from the immigrant experience, to the complicated bonds between parents and children, to questions of memory, language and identity.     A father’s my…

Tareq Baconi: Fire in Every Direction

Telling the story of three generations of displacement, Fire in Every Directionrecounts Baconi’s grandmother’s flight from Palestine as a child, his family’s escape from Lebanon in the midst of civil war, and his own awakening as a queer man within a culture of silence in Jordan. Balancing humour …

David Moscrop: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Why do we make irrational political decisions? Can our stone-age brains process democracy in the digital age? In an era overshadowed by income inequality, environmental catastrophes, terrorism, and the decline of democracy, the political decision-making process has never been more important. In fa…

Breaking News: The Rise of Independent Media

In this panel, Antoun Issa (Deepcut News), Antoinette Lattouf (Ette Media) and Amy Remeikis (The Australia Institute) and host Osman Faruqi (Lamestream) discuss the rise of independent media in an era of mainstream media consolidation and declining public trust. Drawing on their own experiences, t…

Making the Victorian Treaty

In this illuminating discussion, key figures involved in the creation of the Victorian Treaty – including 2023-26 Co-Chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly Ngarra Murray, and CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, member of the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria and Treaty Co-Convenor Nerita…

Political Year in Review

One year on from the Federal Election, four of the country's most incisive political minds take stock. What’s the state of our national political climate and of the major and minor parties? What does the Albanese government stand for? How should we approach our relationship with the USA and other g…

First Knowledges First

Pioneering Noongar doctor and medical researcher Professor Sandra Eades (co-author of First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture) and Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist Amy McQuire (Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media) explore the enduring, transformative role of First Na…

Emily Maguire and Josephine Rowe: Are You There, God?

In this stunning conversation, celebrated authors Emily Maguire (Rapture) and Josephine Rowe (Little World) cover the mundane, the miraculous and writing the ineffable.  Hear them discuss their latest works exploring faith, fate and the nature of belief, with Jaclyn Crupi.  Recorded live at Melbo…

The Past is a Foreign Country

Santilla Chingaipe (Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia), Sita Sargeant (She Shapes History) and Steve Vizard (Nation, Memory, Myth: Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary) come together to bring to light misunderstood, mythologised or lesser-known dimensions of Australian history. From t…

Hannah Kent: Always Home, Always Homesick

Hannah Kent has won legions of fans with works like Burial Rights, The Good People and Devotion. Now, she presents her debut work of non-fiction – a tender, diaristic love letter to her muse, Iceland. Always Home, Always Homesick is both a memoir of Kent’s experiences of living in Iceland, and a w…