Barry Hill is a multi-award winning writer of poetry, history, biography, fiction and reportage. Other essays are new: ‘Brecht’s Song’, on his working-class mother; ‘Dark Star’, an expansion of his ...

Bill Garner is a camper who is also a historian, playwright, and television writer. He is the author of Born in a Tent, a radical history of Australian camping. In the 1970s, as an actor he was a ...

Your definitive guide to Australia’s best writing.

Revered Australian writer Robert Dessaix casts his self-reflective eye over a writing life brimming with adventure and wisdom. Robert Dessaix has spent his life devoted to ideas, writing himself into ...

This event is currently sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email [email protected]. A crucial and unflinching discussion on Australia’s failed plans to stop ...

Paul Roos is a former AFL footballer and senior coach. He played 269 games for Fitzroy and 87 for Sydney. He was a two-time All-Australian captain and has been inducted into the Australian Football ...

Clare Bowditch is an ARIA Award winning musician, broadcaster, sometimes actor, speaker, entrepreneur, and author whose first book “Your Own Kind Of Girl” won the ABIA for “New Writer of The Year” and ...

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'Take three dresses ... one to wash, one to wear and one spare.' When Wanda Gibson was a little girl, her mum would tell her this as they packed to go on holidays. Wanda grew up on Hope Vale Mission ...

The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships are back for 2025 – this year made possible by the generous support of the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, the Readings Foundation and the Just ...