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The Fifth Estate

Family Violence Emergency / Crime

With Sally Warhaft and Jess Hill

The recent book by Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do, calls for a drastic and urgent rethink in the way we conceive of family violence in Australia. Rigorously researched, and packed with interviews and case studies, it's a once-in-a-generation book that asks us to look beyond received wisdom to confront the complexities of family violence squarely.

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11 Sep 2019

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Young Faithful / Faith, religion & spirituality

With Nevo Zisin, Brooke Rutherford, Amal Ibrahim and 1 other

In 2001, 19% of people aged under 24 identified as not religious. By 2016, the figure had increased to 35%. We're losing our religion – fast. What might we be losing along with it? And what's it like to be a young believer in an increasingly secular society?

For this conversation, we're bringing together three young people from different faiths…

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

Private Parts: More than Queer / Sexual & gender politics

Adolfo Aranjuez, Peter Waples-Crowe and Jax Jacki Brown at the Wheeler Centre

Within the letters LGBTIQA+ are myriad meeting points between intersecting identities – race, ethnicity, disability, class and many more – which can be sites of pain and pride. Campaigns for rights and services can have broad, significant and often unheralded impacts on various sections of the community.

With same-sex marriage now legal in Australia, what are the most pressing issues currently facing Australia’s diverse queer population, and how well are they being represented?

Presented in partnership with Archer magazine.

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The Wheeler Centre

So What If … We Didn’t Gender Babies? / Gender

Son Vivienne, Zac Collins-Widders and Bobuq Sayed — Photos: Johnboy Davidson / José Eveline

An increasing number of parents are choosing to raise their children gender-neutral. What could happen if the movement grows, and we raise whole generations of people who are not assigned a binary gender at birth? What would be the flow-on effects in health and education, and for our institutions of law and citizenship?

Is it possible to shield a child from ideas of gender entirely? Is altogether abolishing gender actually feasible, or desirable? Featuring Son Vivienne, Zac Collins-Widders and Bobuq Sayed.

Presented in partnership with Melbourne Knowledge Week.

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Meg Wolitzer: The Female Persuasion / Books, reading & writing

With Meg Wolitzer and Brodie Lancaster

Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, The Female Persuasion, is about public pedestals and feminist friction.

Wolitzer herself is a feminist powerhouse who wrote her first novel, Sleepwalking, while still at university. A precocious talent, she was mentored by the famous essayist and screenwriter Nora Ephron.

Today, she’s the author of 12 acclaimed novels, including The Interestings and The Uncoupling…

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Rebecca Traister: Good and Mad / Sexual & gender politics

With Rebecca Traister and Clare Wright

Rebecca Traister is an American journalist, polemicist and New York Times bestselling author who writes at the intersection of feminism, politics and culture. Her latest book, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, investigates the potential and complexity of women’s anger as a political and social tool – both historically, and in the reinvigorated contemporary women’s movement in…

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