Trailblazing journalist and proud Gamilaroi woman Brooke Boney opens up like never before in All of It, her powerful debut essay collection.

Like many millennial women, Brooke Boney is navigating a society that expects her to chase it all – career, success and personal fulfillment – while doing so under an unforgiving public gaze.

In her highly anticipated essay collection, All of It, she reflects on the pressures of life in the spotlight as the first Indigenous host of Australian commercial breakfast television and now as an ambitious scholar striving to inspire others. With honesty and insight, she explores the competing expectations placed on young women today.

In conversation with Jacinta Parsons, the charismatic and thought-provoking Boney delves into what drives her sense of purpose and meaning while grappling with the generational impacts of colonisation, love, friendship, fertility and ambition.

This event was recorded on Friday 4 April 2025 at The Wheeler Centre.

The official bookseller was Readings.

Featured music is ‘Golden Hour’ by Sarah, the Illstrumentalist.

Trailblazing journalist and proud Gamilaroi woman Brooke Boney opens up like never before in All of It, her powerful debut essay collection.
Like many millennial women, Brooke Boney is navigating a society that expects her to chase it all &ndash; career, success and personal fulfillment &ndash; while doing so under an unforgiving public gaze.
In her highly anticipated essay collection, All of It, she reflects on the pressures of life in the spotlight as the first Indigenous host of Australian commercial breakfast television and now as an ambitious scholar striving to inspire others. With honesty and insight, she explores the competing expectations placed on young women today.
In conversation with Jacinta Parsons, the charismatic and thought-provoking Boney delves into what drives her sense of purpose and meaning while grappling with the generational impacts of colonisation, love, friendship, fertility and ambition.
This event was recorded on Friday 4 April 2025 at The Wheeler Centre. The official bookseller was Readings.
Featured music is &lsquo;Golden Hour&rsquo; by Sarah, the Illstrumentalist.

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