Series

The Fifth Estate

Event Series

For in-depth insider analysis of current affairs, it doesn’t get any better than The Fifth Estate.

For in-depth insider analysis of current affairs, it doesn’t get any better than The Fifth Estate.
This long-running series is a mainstay of the Wheeler Centre’s programme, and of public conversation in Melbourne. Our in-house news anchor Sally Warhaft hosts guests from the world of politics, culture, journalism and international relations to 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.

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Past Events

The Fifth Estate

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

Bill Shorten, Chloe Shorten, Sally Warhaft

7 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Our Exceptional Friend

Emma Shortis, Sally Warhaft

11 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Peter Doherty: An Insider's Plague Year

Peter Doherty, Sally Warhaft

5 Aug

The Fifth Estate

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

Scott Ludlam, Peter Cronau, Sally Warhaft

9 May

The Fifth Estate

New Economic Futures

Sally Warhaft, George Megalogenis

22 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Live-stream: Breaking the Climate Stalemate

Sally Warhaft, Judith Brett, Marian Wilkinson

8 Sep

The Fifth Estate

The Future of Socialism

Sally Warhaft, Paul Adler

8 Aug

The Fifth Estate

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

Sally Warhaft, Kevin Rudd

9 Jun

The Fifth Estate

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

Sally Warhaft, Tom Porteous

26 May

The Fifth Estate

Joshua Wong: Unfree Speech

Joshua Wong, Sally Warhaft

12 May

The Fifth Estate

Live-stream: Malcolm Turnbull

Sally Warhaft, Malcolm Turnbull

28 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Live-stream: State of Emergence

Sally Warhaft, George Megalogenis

31 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Haben Girma: Access, Innovation and Disability Futures

Sally Warhaft, Haben Girma

21 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Bill Browder: Follow the Money

Sally Warhaft, Bill Browder

27 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Bob Brown: Australia Ablaze

Sally Warhaft, Bob Brown

10 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Tom Porteous on Strategy and Stalemate in Yemen

Tom Porteous, Sally Warhaft

24 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Political Wrap 2019

Sally Warhaft, George Megalogenis

26 Nov

The Fifth Estate

Samantha Power on Influence and Idealism

Sally Warhaft, Samantha Power

27 Nov

The Fifth Estate

Past Imperfect: Writing Australian History

Sally Warhaft, Geoffrey Blainey, Clare Wright

29 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Red State Real Talk: Mia Love

Sally Warhaft, Mia Love

17 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Tim Costello

Tim Costello, Sally Warhaft

1 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Family Violence Emergency

Sally Warhaft, Jess Hill

17 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Foreign Affairs

Sally Warhaft, Michael Fullilove

30 Jul

The Fifth Estate

The Future of Indonesia

Sally Warhaft, Andreas Harsono, Norman Erikson Pasaribu

31 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Plots and Prayers

Sally Warhaft, Niki Savva

16 Jul

The Fifth Estate

Antisemitism

Sally Warhaft, Dvir Abramovich, Deborah Lipstadt

2 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Medicine and Healthcare in Australia

Sally Warhaft, Ranjana Srivastava, Gustav Nossal

2 Jul

The Fifth Estate

Post-Election Wrap 2019

Sally Warhaft, Paul Kelly

18 Jun

The Fifth Estate

Women’s Work

Sally Warhaft, Megan K. Stack

11 Aug

The Fifth Estate

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

Sally Warhaft, Frédéric Martel

4 Jun

The Fifth Estate

Right or Duty? Compulsory Voting in Australia

Sally Warhaft, Judith Brett, Kim Rubenstein

16 Apr

The Fifth Estate

On Hate

Tim Soutphommasane, Santilla Chingaipe, Sally Warhaft

2 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Federal Election 2019

Sally Warhaft, Michelle Grattan, John Hewson

19 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Kassem Eid: My Country

Kassem Eid, Sally Warhaft

5 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Political Wrap 2018

Sally Warhaft, George Megalogenis, Gabrielle Chan

27 Nov

The Fifth Estate

US Midterm Elections

Sally Warhaft, Bob Carr, Dennis Altman

30 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Kerry O'Brien

Kerry O'Brien, Sally Warhaft

13 Nov

The Fifth Estate

Foreign Affairs

Sally Warhaft, Stephen Smith

16 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Christianity Today

Sally Warhaft, Greg Sheridan

2 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Media, Police and Crimes Against Women

Sally Warhaft, Christine Nixon, Andrew Rule

18 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Katharine Murphy

Katharine Murphy, Sally Warhaft

4 Sep

The Fifth Estate

David Neiwert

David Neiwert, Sally Warhaft

26 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen, Sally Warhaft

25 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Whitewash: Crops, Corruption and Cancer

Sally Warhaft, Carey Gillam

11 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Tracey Spicer

Sally Warhaft, Tracey Spicer

10 Jul

The Fifth Estate

Les Hinton

Sally Warhaft, Les Hinton

24 Jul

The Fifth Estate

Public Health and Drug Policy Today

Sally Warhaft, Richard Di Natale, Fiona Patten

12 Jun

The Fifth Estate

Derryn Hinch

Sally Warhaft, Derryn Hinch

17 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Australia's #MeToo

Sally Warhaft, George McEncroe, Kate McClymont

3 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Katy Tur: Reporting Trump

Sally Warhaft, Katy Tur

1 May

The Fifth Estate

The President's Pen

Sally Warhaft, Pat Cunnane

20 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Jacqui Lambie

Sally Warhaft, Jacqui Lambie

6 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Political Wrap

Sally Warhaft, George Megalogenis, Alice Workman

21 Nov

The Fifth Estate

Sam Dastyari

Sally Warhaft, Sam Dastyari

24 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Incorrigible Optimist

Gareth Evans, Sally Warhaft

10 Oct

The Fifth Estate

High Court

Sally Warhaft, John Hewson, Adrienne Stone

26 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Alfred Deakin and the Art of Minority Government

Sally Warhaft, Judith Brett

12 Sep

The Fifth Estate

The Collapse of American Power in the Middle East

Sally Warhaft, Robert Fisk, Timothy Lynch

1 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Hindu Nationalism in India

Sally Warhaft, Meena Kandasamy, Shashi Tharoor

1 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Immigration

Sally Warhaft, Munjed Al Muderis, Shen Narayanasamy

1 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Politics and Public Policy: Australia and the World

Sally Warhaft, Peter Hartcher, Geoff Gallop

18 Jul

The Fifth Estate

Gail Kelly on Workplace Culture and Leadership

Sally Warhaft, Gail Kelly

11 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Dealing with Drugs

Bob Carr, Sally Warhaft

4 Jul

The Fifth Estate

The Welcome Stranger

Sally Warhaft, Susan Carland, William Maley, Rebecca Huntley

13 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Elections Across Europe

Sally Warhaft, Mary Gearin, Georgina Downer

6 Jun

The Fifth Estate

State of the Nation

Sally Warhaft, Kerry O'Brien

10 May

The Fifth Estate

100 Days

Sally Warhaft, Don Watson

26 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Marriage of Convenience: Russia-China Relations

Sally Warhaft, Tony Kevin, Bobo Lo

11 Apr

The Fifth Estate

Behind the Broadsheet

Sally Warhaft, Chris Mitchell

28 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Same Same

Sally Warhaft, Terri Butler, Tim Wilson

14 Mar

The Fifth Estate

USA Today

Thomas Frank, Cynthia P. Schneider, Sally Warhaft

28 Feb

The Fifth Estate

Mark Colvin

Mark Colvin, Sally Warhaft

29 Nov

The Fifth Estate

Big Tobacco

Sally Warhaft, Nicola Roxon, Kylie Lindorff

15 Nov

The Fifth Estate

Presidential Complex

Sally Warhaft, Bruce Wolpe

18 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Disability in Australia

Sally Warhaft, Graeme Innes

20 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Straight Talk with Anthony Albanese

Anthony Albanese, Sally Warhaft

4 Oct

The Fifth Estate

Social Economics

George Megalogenis, George Packer, Sally Warhaft

28 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Laura Secor on Iran

Laura Secor, Sally Warhaft

28 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Democracy in Action

Sally Warhaft, Gareth Evans, Greg Sheridan

26 Jul

The Fifth Estate

Human Rights with Philip Ruddock

Philip Ruddock, Sally Warhaft

12 Jul

The Fifth Estate

Powers That Be

Sally Warhaft, Kerry O'Brien, Margaret Simons, Dennis Glover

13 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Real Recognition

Sally Warhaft, Marcia Langton, Megan Davis

7 Jun

The Fifth Estate

Roger Cohen

Sally Warhaft, Roger Cohen

24 May

The Fifth Estate

The Killing Season

Sally Warhaft, Sarah Ferguson

26 Apr

The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate: Inside Iraq: Melbourne

Emma Sky, Sally Warhaft

10 May

The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate: Inside Iraq: Ballarat

Sally Warhaft, Emma Sky

9 May

The Fifth Estate

Liberal Loyalties

Niki Savva, Sally Warhaft

29 Mar

The Fifth Estate

Intergenerational Warfare

Satyajit Das, Sally Warhaft, John Daley

15 Mar

The Fifth Estate

A Larger Australia

Sally Warhaft, Michael Fullilove

1 Mar

The Fifth Estate

The Body Economic

Sally Warhaft, David Stuckler

16 Feb

The Fifth Estate

Dissecting the Dismissal

Sally Warhaft, Paul Kelly, Troy Bramston

10 Nov

The Fifth Estate

Turnbull's Turn

Sally Warhaft, Laura Tingle, Michelle Grattan

27 Oct

The Fifth Estate

On the Bench

Sally Warhaft, Christopher Pyne, Chris Bowen

29 Sep

The Fifth Estate

Atmosphere of Hope

Sally Warhaft, Tim Flannery, Katherine Teh-White, John Grimes

15 Sep

The Fifth Estate

The Influence of ISIS

Sally Warhaft, Jamie Tarabay, Sally Neighbour

29 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Media Makers: Journalism Then & Now

Sally Warhaft, Barrie Cassidy, Latika Bourke

21 Aug

The Fifth Estate

Safe Harbour

Sally Warhaft, Mariam Veiszadeh, David Manne

21 Jul

The Fifth Estate

The Age of Defence

Sally Warhaft, Catherine McGregor

23 Jun

The Fifth Estate

A Conversation with David Gonski

Sally Warhaft, David Gonski

7 Jul

The Fifth Estate

Sizing Up Government

Sally Warhaft, Miriam Lyons, Ian McAuley, Ross Gittins

9 Jun

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