Series

The Fifth Estate

Event Series

The Fifth Estate gives you acess to regular in-depth insider analysis of current affairs and today’s key debates.

The Fifth Estate is a mainstay of the Wheeler Centre’s program, and of public conversation in Melbourne.

Hosted by broadcaster, anthropologist and writer Sally Warhaft, this long-running series sees guests from the world of politics, culture, journalism and international relations dissect pressing questions of policy, power and public affairs.

It’s a chance to give complex local and global issues the thoughtful discussion they deserve, and hear expert analysis on today’s key conversations.

Upcoming Events

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The Fifth Estate

Craig Foster: The Republic Question

Craig Foster, Sally Warhaft

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28 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Politics 2023: The Big Issues

Kerry O’Brien, Niki Savva, Chris Wallace, Sally Warhaft

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29 Apr

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Is Democracy Fragile?

Joëlle Gergis, Michael Lavarch, Kerry O’Brien, Julianne Schultz, Sally Warhaft

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30 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Powering Up: Australia's Path to Clean Energy

Alan Finkel, Sally Warhaft

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30 May

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Past Events

The Fifth Estate

[Cancelled] A Crack in the Wall: Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan

Bassam Aramin, Rami Elhanan, Sally Warhaft

The Fifth Estate

Upcoming Events

Craig Foster: The Republic Question

Politics 2023: The Big Issues

Is Democracy Fragile?

Powering Up: Australia's Path to Clean Energy

Past Events

[Cancelled] A Crack in the Wall: Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan

Bill and Chloe Shorten: Family, Politics and Everything In Between

Our Exceptional Friend

Peter Doherty: An Insider's Plague Year

Can You Keep a Secret? Media Rights and the Need to Know

New Economic Futures

Live-stream: Breaking the Climate Stalemate

The Future of Socialism

Live-stream: Kevin Rudd on Australia’s Post-Pandemic Future

Live-stream: Tom Porteous on Human Rights and COVID-19

Joshua Wong: Unfree Speech

Live-stream: Malcolm Turnbull

Live-stream: State of Emergence

Haben Girma: Access, Innovation and Disability Futures

Bill Browder: Follow the Money

Bob Brown: Australia Ablaze

Tom Porteous on Strategy and Stalemate in Yemen

Political Wrap 2019

Samantha Power on Influence and Idealism

Past Imperfect: Writing Australian History

Red State Real Talk: Mia Love

Tim Costello

Family Violence Emergency

Foreign Affairs

The Future of Indonesia

Plots and Prayers

Antisemitism

Medicine and Healthcare in Australia

Post-Election Wrap 2019

Women’s Work

In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy

Right or Duty? Compulsory Voting in Australia

On Hate

Federal Election 2019

Kassem Eid: My Country

Political Wrap 2018

US Midterm Elections

Kerry O'Brien

Foreign Affairs

Christianity Today

Media, Police and Crimes Against Women

Katharine Murphy

David Neiwert

Masha Gessen

Whitewash: Crops, Corruption and Cancer

Tracey Spicer

Les Hinton

Public Health and Drug Policy Today

Derryn Hinch

Australia's #MeToo

Katy Tur: Reporting Trump

The President's Pen

Jacqui Lambie

Political Wrap

Sam Dastyari

Incorrigible Optimist

High Court

Alfred Deakin and the Art of Minority Government

The Collapse of American Power in the Middle East

Hindu Nationalism in India

Immigration

Politics and Public Policy: Australia and the World

Gail Kelly on Workplace Culture and Leadership

Dealing with Drugs

The Welcome Stranger

Elections Across Europe

State of the Nation

100 Days

Marriage of Convenience: Russia-China Relations

Behind the Broadsheet

Same Same

USA Today

Mark Colvin