tag:wheelercentre.com:dailiesfeedThe Wheeler Centre: DailiesFri Mar 12 09:57:56 +1100 2010tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-12T09:57:56+11:00:TumWidget1712010-03-12T09:57:56+11:00Geoff Dyer at the Wheeler Centre <p><object width="512" height="288" data="http://wheelercentre.com/static/scripts/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="movie" value="http://wheelercentre.com/static/scripts/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="false" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="flashvars" value='config={"key":"#$88d21863b627ab8e7e6","logo":{"url":"http://wheelercentre.com/static/images/player_watermark.png","top":15,"left":15,"opacity":0.4,"fullscreenOnly":false,"displayTime":0,"fadeSpeed":0,"linkUrl":"http://wheelercentre.com"},"play":{"url":"http://wheelercentre.com/static/images/big_play_hover.png","opacity":1,"width":94,"height":71,"label":null,"replayLabel":null,"fadeSpeed":500,"rotateSpeed":50},"clip":{"url":"http://video.wheelercentre.com.s3.amazonaws.com/55039_32700_e8cb813ea59d4b43fada7aef84e047611facbc75_32700.mp4"},"plugins":{"controls":{"borderRadius":"0","backgroundColor":"#222222","bufferGradient":"none","progressGradient":"none","durationColor":"#f0f0f0","buttonColor":"#e8600f","sliderGradient":"none","sliderColor":"#000000","timeColor":"#ffffff","progressColor":"#e8600f","timeBgColor":"#222222","buttonOverColor":"#e8600f","backgroundGradient":"none","bufferColor":"#fecbad","tooltipColor":"#FFFFFF","tooltipTextColor":"#000000","tooltipGradient": "none","height": 24,"opacity": 1, "fullscreen": false, "volume": false}}, "playlist":[{"url":"http://video.wheelercentre.com.s3.amazonaws.com/55039_32700_e8cb813ea59d4b43fada7aef84e047611facbc75_32700.mp4"}]}' /></object></p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-12T09:55:35+11:00:TumArticle1702010-03-12T09:55:35+11:00Out-of-copyright texts to be made ava...<p>The Italian ministry of cultural heritage <a href="http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-technology/google-italy-agree-massive-book-scanning-project-20100311-pzl0.html">has agreed to allow Google to scan up to a million books</a> housed in the Italian national libraries of Florence and Rome.</p>
<p>The agreement covers <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/10/google-italian-book-scan-deal">out-of-copyright texts</a>,published before 1866 and including works by the likes of Galileo Galilei.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-11T12:27:17+11:00:TumArticle1692010-03-11T12:27:17+11:00Dessaix barred from Australian Writer...<p><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/writers-rally-as-china-snubs-dessaix-20100309-pvwu.html">The Age reports</a> that the writer Robert Dessaix has been refused a visa to attend Australian Writers' Week in China on the basis of his HIV positive status.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-10T13:46:53+11:00:TumArticle1682010-03-10T13:46:53+11:00Fame spotting <p><a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/irvine-welsh/">Irvine Welsh will speak</a> at the Wheeler Centre tonight.</p>
<p>The unofficial poet laureate of drugs, sex and grime talks about his latest book<em> Reheated Cabbage</em> with the ABC’s Alan Brough.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-10T13:28:49+11:00:TumWidget1672010-03-10T13:28:49+11:00Paul Kelly sings at A Gala Night of S...<p><object width="512" height="288" data="http://wheelercentre.com/static/scripts/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="movie" value="http://wheelercentre.com/static/scripts/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="false" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="flashvars" value='config={"key":"#$88d21863b627ab8e7e6","logo":{"url":"http://wheelercentre.com/static/images/player_watermark.png","top":15,"left":15,"opacity":0.4,"fullscreenOnly":false,"displayTime":0,"fadeSpeed":0,"linkUrl":"http://wheelercentre.com"},"play":{"url":"http://wheelercentre.com/static/images/big_play_hover.png","opacity":1,"width":94,"height":71,"label":null,"replayLabel":null,"fadeSpeed":500,"rotateSpeed":50},"clip":{"url":"http://video.wheelercentre.com.s3.amazonaws.com/54250_32192_b6d4eda31af96140a2a5750aa36a79a216251156_32192.mp4"},"plugins":{"controls":{"borderRadius":"0","backgroundColor":"#222222","bufferGradient":"none","progressGradient":"none","durationColor":"#f0f0f0","buttonColor":"#e8600f","sliderGradient":"none","sliderColor":"#000000","timeColor":"#ffffff","progressColor":"#e8600f","timeBgColor":"#222222","buttonOverColor":"#e8600f","backgroundGradient":"none","bufferColor":"#fecbad","tooltipColor":"#FFFFFF","tooltipTextColor":"#000000","tooltipGradient": "none","height": 24,"opacity": 1, "fullscreen": false, "volume": false}}, "playlist":[{"url":"http://video.wheelercentre.com.s3.amazonaws.com/54250_32192_b6d4eda31af96140a2a5750aa36a79a216251156_32192.mp4"}]}' /></object></p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-09T10:22:25+11:00:TumWidget1662010-03-09T10:22:25+11:00[Malcolm Fraser: Part Two](http://whe...<p><object width="512" height="288" data="http://wheelercentre.com/static/scripts/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="movie" value="http://wheelercentre.com/static/scripts/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="false" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="flashvars" value='config={"key":"#$88d21863b627ab8e7e6","logo":{"url":"http://wheelercentre.com/static/images/player_watermark.png","top":15,"left":15,"opacity":0.4,"fullscreenOnly":false,"displayTime":0,"fadeSpeed":0,"linkUrl":"http://wheelercentre.com"},"play":{"url":"http://wheelercentre.com/static/images/big_play_hover.png","opacity":1,"width":94,"height":71,"label":null,"replayLabel":null,"fadeSpeed":500,"rotateSpeed":50},"clip":{"url":"http://video.wheelercentre.com.s3.amazonaws.com/54880_32594_a424572b0044535b8bc60b9372fcdc6e4439285e_32594.mp4"},"plugins":{"controls":{"borderRadius":"0","backgroundColor":"#222222","bufferGradient":"none","progressGradient":"none","durationColor":"#f0f0f0","buttonColor":"#e8600f","sliderGradient":"none","sliderColor":"#000000","timeColor":"#ffffff","progressColor":"#e8600f","timeBgColor":"#222222","buttonOverColor":"#e8600f","backgroundGradient":"none","bufferColor":"#fecbad","tooltipColor":"#FFFFFF","tooltipTextColor":"#000000","tooltipGradient": "none","height": 24,"opacity": 1, "fullscreen": false, "volume": false}}, "playlist":[{"url":"http://video.wheelercentre.com.s3.amazonaws.com/54880_32594_a424572b0044535b8bc60b9372fcdc6e4439285e_32594.mp4"}]}' /></object></p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-09T10:11:03+11:00:TumArticle1652010-03-09T10:11:03+11:00Sarah Dunant at the Wheeler Centre to...<p>Sarah Dunant will discuss her latest blockbuster, <em>Sacred Hearts</em>, tonight. Set in Renaissance Italy, it's a tale of power, creativity and passion.</p>
<p>Book tickets <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/sarah-dunant/">now</a>.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-08T12:01:47+11:00:TumArticle1642010-03-08T12:01:47+11:00'Quite possibly the best living write...<p>There are still a few tickets left for tonight's 6pm event with the writer Zadie Smith dubbed "a national treasure".</p>
<p>Book for Geoff Dyer <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/geoff-dyer/">here</a>.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-05T09:59:23+11:00:TumArticle1622010-03-05T09:59:23+11:00Let Prof Pods boost your brain power<p>Presented by The Wheeler Centre with the Australian Poetry Centre, Ezra Bix, aka Professor Petri P Podsapoppin PhD, hosts the <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/fed-square-book-market/">Fed Square Book Market</a> this Saturday.
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tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-04T09:22:40+11:00:TumArticle1592010-03-04T09:22:40+11:00Wheeler Centre podcasts<p>You can subscribe to podcasts of Wheeler Centre events, with video and audio-only feeds now available. Subscribe directly via iTunes using these links: <a href="itpc://wheelercentre.com/video/video_podcast">video</a> and <a href="itpc://wheelercentre.com/video/audio_podcast">audio-only</a>, or use these links if you use a different podcast tool: <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/video/video_podcast">video</a> and <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/video/audio_podcast">audio-only</a>.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-04T14:25:54+11:00:TumArticle1612010-03-04T14:25:54+11:00Germaine Greer: still a female eunuch? <p><a href="http://www.themonthly.com.au/monthly-essays-louis-nowra-better-self-germaine-greer-and-039the-female-eunuch039-2298">Louis Nowra talks to Germaine Greer</a> in the latest issue of <em>The Monthly</em>, 40 years after her seminal book, <em>The Female Eunuch,</em> was published.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-04T12:34:00+11:00:TumArticle1602010-03-04T12:34:00+11:00IQ2 Debate<p>Tonight's IQ2 debate asks whether Australia should embrace nuclear power. There are still tickets available if you would like to come to this Town Hall event.</p>
<p><a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/iq2-debates-australia-should-embrace-nuclear-power/">Book here. </a></p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-03T11:27:36+11:00:TumArticle1582010-03-03T11:27:36+11:00The ALR on politicians' reading habits<p><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/power-readers/story-e6frg8nf-1225835676036">The Australian Literary Review</a> surveys our politicians about their favourite books, with some interesting results.</p>
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tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-03T10:20:08+11:00:TumArticle1572010-03-03T10:20:08+11:00Kapuscinski strayed from the paramete...<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/02/ryszard-kapuscinski-accused-fiction-biography">The Guardian reports</a> on a new biography of Ryszard Kapuscinski, which claims the world renowned Polish journalist's reportage repeatedly crossed the line between fact and fiction.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-03T09:44:36+11:00:TumArticle1562010-03-03T09:44:36+11:00Malcolm Fraser at the Baptist Church <p>The very last tickets for Malcolm Fraser have now been released. <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/malcolm-fraser/">Book here</a> to see Fraser in conversation with co-writer Margaret Simons and George Megalogenis tonight.</p>
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tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-02T11:44:02+11:00:TumArticle1552010-03-02T11:44:02+11:00So much for health care <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/books/02book.html?ref=arts">The New York Times reviews</a> Lionel Shriver's latest novel, <em>So Much for That</em>, which takes a swipe at US health care and insurance policy, and the impact it can have on middle class families.</p>
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tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-02T10:04:48+11:00:TumArticle1542010-03-02T10:04:48+11:00Malcolm Fraser at the Baptist Street ...<p>We have a final release of tickets for tomorrow night's event, where former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser will talk about his new memoir, with co-writer Margaret Simons and George Megalogenis.</p>
<p>Hear the personal recollections of one of our most persistent, insistent and controversial political voices.</p>
<p><a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/malcolm-fraser/">Book tickets here</a>.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-01T14:37:52+11:00:TumArticle1532010-03-01T14:37:52+11:00Adelaide Writers’ Week 2010 Opens<p>Adelaide Writers' Week, part of the Adelaide Festival, begins. And with a number of their visiting writers, including <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/geoff-dyer/">Geoff Dyer</a> and <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/sarah-dunant/">Sarah Dunant</a>, coming to the Wheeler Centre next week, there's no need to miss out if you can't get to the South Australian festival.</p>
tag:wheelercentre.com,2010-03-01T10:06:49+11:00:TumArticle1522010-03-01T10:06:49+11:00Debut Mondays <p><a href="http://www.tomcho.com/?p=1365">Tom Cho</a> is one of four first-time writers talking at the Wheeler Centre tonight as part of our <a href="http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/debut-mondays1/">Debut Mondays</a> programme.</p>
<p>Also speaking will be Andrew Croome, Lisa Dempster and LK Holt, so come along from 6pm and enjoy a glass of wine with us.</p>