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Broadly Speaking: Power, Privilege and Pushing Back / Activism

With Amy McQuire, Nyadol Nyuon, Tanya Talaga and 1 other

In our first Broadly Speaking event, Aileen Moreton-Robinson talked about the blinkers of white feminism, and explored alternative ways for women to conceive of freedom and power. In this follow-up panel discussion, we brought together exceptional minds from Australia and abroad to expand on the themes of sovereignty, race and activism.

Hosted by journalist and podcaster Amy McQuire, our panellists – including lawyer…

30 Sep 2020

Upcoming event

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Broadly Speaking

Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris / Words & language

With Ann Goldstein, Mary Norris, and Caro Llewellyn

What's it like to devote your whole working life to language, as a literary translator or as an editor?

In September, we'll be joined from New York by two brilliant bilingual friends, both of whom have shaped the linguistic landscape in distinctive ways. Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris met as young copy editors at the New Yorker magazine. Norris went…

22 Sep 2020

Upcoming event

The Fifth Estate

New Economic Futures / Economy & development

With Sally Warhaft and George Megalogenis

Remember March 2020? When Australian borders closed, when we saw the first round of social restrictions? When the disturbing and surreal realities of COVID-19 finally hit home across Australia? March! We were so young.

Back then, Sally Warhaft caught up with George Megalogenis for a Fifth Estate conversation about political leadership during the pandemic, and about its historic and economic…

4 Sep 2020

Next Chapter

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Penguin Random House acquires Ennis Cehic’s debut satirical fiction collection / Publishing & editing

Penguin Random House will publish SADVERTISING – the debut collection of satirical short stories by 2018 The Next Chapter recipient Ennis Cehic – in early 2022. We spoke with Cehic – and with Penguin Random House publisher Justin Ractliffe – about the news.

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We Are Nemeses: Talking Experimental Comedy / Comedy & humour

With Alistair Baldwin, Vidya Rajan, Chloe Alison Escott and 1 other

Vidya Rajan and Alistair Baldwin are Nemeses, a newly formed and already dysfunctional comedy duo. The pair had their Melbourne International Comedy Festival show cancelled due to the pandemic, but their toxic and unnecessary creative collaboration stops for no one!

Join Vidya and Alistair as they attempt to grab this viral moment and rise to the never-ending demands of content…

8 Sep 2020

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The Fifth Estate

Live-stream: Breaking the Climate Stalemate / Australian politics

With Sally Warhaft, Judith Brett, and Marian Wilkinson

What might the economic and social upheavals of 2020 mean for climate policy in Australia? For this Fifth Estate conversation, host Sally Warhaft will bring together two writers who have undertaken in-depth research into the resource economy and Australian climate scepticism.

Judith Brett's recent Quarterly Essay, 'The Coal Curse', traces the history of Australia's resource dependence and its impact on…

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