Changemaker Santilla Chingaipe is joined by Sisonke Msimang to explore Australia’s forgotten history of slavery, race and empire. Best known for her award-winning documentary Our African Roots, ...

George Megalogenis is joined by Sally Warhaft for our final Fifth Estate of 2024. With the Australian political landscape in a constant state of flux, the two-party system continues to splinter.

Stan Grant delves into time, family and spirituality in his compelling new work, Murriyang, with host Scott Stephens. Stan Grant returns to Melbourne for this end-of-year conversation at The Wheeler ...

Roderick Waller was born in Yorkshire in 1948 to a working-class family of ship builders. In 1971 he immigrated to Australia. He has worked as a jackaroo, a UN economist and a consultant in developing ...

Pierz Newton-John is a writer, web developer and former psychotherapist. He is also a founding faculty member of The School of Life Melbourne. His critically acclaimed short-story collection Fault ...

A season of curiosity unleashed. Spring Fling returns for 2024 with wild abandon. This year, we’ve curated a lineup of change-makers, rule-breakers and singular storytellers to challenge your ...

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Acclaimed author Patrick Ness explores his diverse body of work and what it means to write across genres. Patrick Ness is one of the most prolific and celebrated writers in contemporary fantasy and ...

Julian Wu is Melbourne’s foremost rock chef, with a long history straddling Melbourne’s rock and street food scenes from the 1980s to the present day. Always a keen amateur chef, his first gig after ...

The Wheeler Centre exists to support writers, readers and thinkers. Through live and digital conversations, debates, readings, performances and discussions, it deepens public engagement with the most ...

Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer ...