History, politics & current affairs

Anything and everything in History, politics & current affairs from across our archives.

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10 Nov 2017

Past event

New News by the Centre for Advancing Journalism

Indigenous News / First Nations

With Jack Latimore and Gary Foley

2 Feb 2012

News

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Smut for Teens? More, Please / Sexual & gender politics

By Jo Case

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Do we become more politically conservative as we get older? Tom Elliott / History, politics & current affairs

With Tom Elliott

10 Nov 2019

Past event

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Broadside

Taking Up Space: Building the City That We Deserve / Sexism & feminism

With Gala Vanting, Jax Jacki Brown, Caroline Martin and 2 others

4 Jul 2017

Past event

The Fifth Estate

Dealing with Drugs / Drugs

With Bob Carr and Sally Warhaft

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

William Dalrymple: Corporate Violence and the East India Company / History, politics & current affairs

15 Jun 2011

Manning Clark’s Obsessions / History

By Jon Tjhia

Manning Clark is a giant of Australia’s cultural landscape. His impact and influence on our history and our way of understanding our history constitute a lasting legacy - which is exactly what Clark would have wished. In Mark McKenna’s new biography, An Eye for Eternity, the self-styled historian-sage emerges as a deeply complex man, riddled with obsessions that included Australia’s national identity and…

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Roscoe Howell on Australians and Modern Slavery / Government

With Roscoe Howell

Thomas Friedman / Non-Fiction

With Thomas Friedman and Maxine McKew

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

Ceridwen Dovey: Fugitive Connections / Books, reading & writing

31 May 2016

Past event

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Question Time

Economics, Tax and Tax Reform / Economy & development

With Madeleine Morris, Michelle Grattan, Richard Denniss and 1 other

Podcast episode

The Fifth Estate

David Marr / Australian politics

Paul Cleary on Australia’s Mining Boom / Energy & resources

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Cyndi Darnell: Sex? What’s Up With That? / Sexual & gender politics

With Cyndi Darnell

Amos Oz - Israel: War, Peace and Storytelling / Books, reading & writing

With Amos Oz and Mark Baker

Podcast episode

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The Fifth Estate

Politics and Public Policy: Australia and the World / History, politics & current affairs

Greg Davies: Law And Order / Government

With Greg Davies

7 Jul 2011

Development’s Underbelly / Sexual & gender politics

By Alex Landragin

This is an extract from a report by Bridget Chappell in the 85th edition of Voiceworks, the quarterly magazine of Wheeler Centre resident organisation Express Media, out now.

The guards of Sulaimaniya Prison women’s wing wear high heels.

It’s a small wing, homier in appearance than its adjacent counterpart for male prisoners. Glimpses of men, slumped and crowded, sneak past me on the…

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