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Season One. Discuss the internet, climate, humour, comics, music fandom, consciousness, proxy wars and more ›

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Friday 13 March: Christiana Figueres and Ross Garnaut on Climate Solutions Now ›

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Memoirist Emily Clements on side gigs, playlists and re-typing manuscripts from scratch ›

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Thursday 5 March: Yanis Varoufakis on Debt, Disobedience and Democracy ›

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We're ten – and as we mark our birthday and the turning of a new decade, we’d like to celebrate with you ›

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National Agitators: Confronting Australian Theatre  /  Theatre

 
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Double Booked Club: Tony Birch and Tara June Winch  /  Fiction

 
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Right Time: Why We Need an Australian Charter of Human Rights  /  Human rights

 
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Pass it On: Preserving Australian Indigenous Languages  /  Words & language

News
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Working with Words: Emily Clements  /  Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Emily Clements

 
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Double Booked Club: Melanie Cheng and Omar Sakr  /  Fiction

Season One

Events coming soon to the Wheeler Centre

Running thoughts

From some upcoming presenters

Portrait of Jung Chang

History is the most dangerous thing to a dictatorship.

Jung Chang on writing biography

Portrait of Jon Ronson

Everybody’s complicit and nobody wants to think about it ... It’s within that hypocrisy that exploitation lies.

Jon Ronson on the porn industry

Portrait of Christiana Figueres

Slowly but surely, we’re building a much better world. It’s the slowly part that’s the problem...

Christiana Figueres on the transition to renewable energy

Latest news

Updates from the Wheeler Centre and adjacents

Working with Words: Emily Clements  /  Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Emily Clements

We’re ten!  /  Books, reading & writing

Working with Words: Bianca Nogrady  /  Work

Guest post by Bianca Nogrady

Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards  /  Australian stories

Dive into our podcasts with these gateway episodes

 
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Dog Days: Bob Murphy and Martin Flanagan  /  Sport

 
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Better Off Dead

1 The invasion of death  /  Life & death

 
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1 Aziz, Not a Boat Number  /  Migration

 
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Lindy West on Feminism, Fat and Fighting Trolls  /  Bodies

 
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Gerald Murnane  /  Books, reading & writing

Alexander Chee: How To Write An Autobiographical Novel

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Listen to Housekeeping – an audio mini-series about voting, beyond the ballot box

 
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Housekeeping #1: Sizzle  /  Australia

 
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Housekeeping #2: ID  /  Government

 
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Housekeeping #3: No-Shows  /  Australian politics

 
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Housekeeping #4: Scrutiny  /  Government

 
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Housekeeping #5: Locked Out  /  Crime

Some of our favourite notes

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Reading into Dementia  /  Young & old

Guest post by Melanie Joosten

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The Case for Cartoons  /  Comedy & humour

Guest post by Oslo Davis

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Live the Lie: how narrative is used in crowdfunding  /  Internet, journalism, media & publishing

Guest post by Oscar Schwartz

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Beyond Bars: two perspectives  /  Social justice

By Sophie Quick

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Heat Waves: Something Good is Gonna Happen  /  Music

Guest post by Sam George-Allen

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Putting Quarters in a Broken Machine: on the merit of literary prizes in Australia  /  Awards & prizes

Guest post by Omar Sakr

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I’m Only Sleeping: Stories from the edge of wakefulness  /  Radio & podcasts

Guest post by Bec Fary

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Jumping Off Mountains  /  Biography & memoir

Guest post by Cheryl Strayed

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Deny, Deny, Deny  /  Race & multiculturalism

Guest post by Santilla Chingaipe

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Miranda July’s Internet Interventions  /  Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Connor Tomas O'Brien

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Radio is Dead: Long live radio documentaries and features  /  Radio & podcasts

Guest post by Kyla Brettle

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The Tern  /  Fiction

Guest post by Tony Birch

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Loudest Libraries  /  Books, reading & writing

Guest post by Stuart Kells

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Members Only: on politicians who write fiction  /  Fiction

By Sophie Quick

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Dear Lexdyslic Reader: why I love Roald Dahl  /  Literacy

Guest post by Jackie French

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Memories of an Island  /  Climate change & weather

Guest post by Xiaolu Guo

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Do Not Ask for Whom the Pinball Chimes  /  Life & death

Guest post by David Astle

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What’s the difference between a religion and a cult?  /  Faith, religion & spirituality

Guest post by Andrew Singleton

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