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23 May 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Mikey Cahill on Waxing Lyrical: The Good, The Bad and The Gaga
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18 May 2012
Texts in the City: Collected Poems of Gwen Harwood
17 May 2012
Texts in the City: Cosí
15 May 2012
AWG 50th Anniversary: David Williamson State of the Industry Address
14 May 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Chris Stedman: Faithiest: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious
10 May 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Bettina Arndt on Why Sex Matters So Much to Men
10 May 2012
Australian Literature 101: Judith Wright: Poems
10 May 2012
George Megalogenis: The Australian Moment
09 May 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Ken Haley on Why Everyone Should Be in a Wheelchair
06 May 2012
The Fifth Estate: Educational Principles
03 May 2012
Texts in the City: Interpreter of Maladies
03 May 2012
Australian Literature 101: Henry Handel Richardson: The Getting of Wisdom
30 April 2012
Texts in the City: Growing Up Asian in Australia
26 April 2012
Alom Shaha: The Young Atheist's Handbook
23 April 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Michael Shmith: Away with Cliché
19 April 2012
Texts in the City: Year of Wonders
18 April 2012
Hilary McPhee: Memoirs of a Young Bastard
17 April 2012
Eliza Griswold: The Tenth Parallel
16 April 2012
Texts in the City: The Crucible
13 April 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Glyn Davis: Leader of The Gang: How Political Parties Choose Numero Uno
12 April 2012
Jamie Oliver
11 April 2012
The Fifth Estate: The Numbers Game
10 April 2012
Janette Turner Hospital: Turbulent Voices
09 April 2012
Intelligence Squared: Animals Should Be Off the Menu
03 April 2012
Australian Literature 101: Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
02 April 2012
David Rieff: The Ethics of Intervention
31 March 2012
Unexpected Passions: Kate Langbroek and Adam Zwar
27 March 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Verity Burgmann on the Importance of Being Extreme
26 March 2012
Quarterly Essay - Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet
23 March 2012
Alan Hollinghurst: Beautiful Lines and Strangers' Children
23 March 2012
Ideas for Melbourne: Environment and Sustainability
22 March 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Christine Gordon on International Women's Day - Feminism is Personal
22 March 2012
Kim Barker: The Taliban Shuffle
22 March 2012
Texts in the City: On the Waterfront
22 March 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Michael Gawenda on The Journalist as Betrayer
04 March 2012
Ideas for Melbourne: City and Urban Planning
29 February 2012
An Evening with Alain de Botton
24 February 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Hilary Charlesworth on Women and the New Wave of Democracies
24 February 2012
Ideas for Melbourne: Transport and Movement
21 February 2012
Lunchbox/Soapbox: David Holmgren on Retrofitting the Suburbs for Sustainability
20 February 2012
The Wheeler Centre Gala 2012: Stories to Believe In
09 February 2012
Law and Order Week: Above the Law
25 January 2012
Meanland: Literature, Genre and the Digital Age
24 January 2012
Two Sides of the Story: Fantasy
17 January 2012
Law and Order Week: A History of Bad Behaviour
16 January 2012
Liao Yiwu
12 January 2012
Law and Order Week: Naked City
10 January 2012
The Late Great: Christina Stead
09 January 2012
Alex Miller
06 January 2012
Law and Order Week: Compassionate Bastard
23 December 2011
Must-Read Histories
22 December 2011
Neil Gaiman
22 December 2011
Tom Stoppard
21 December 2011
Paul Hawken
16 December 2011
Sad/Angry/Happy: Happy
14 December 2011
Two Sides of the Story: Picture Story Authors
09 December 2011
Elliot Perlman
06 December 2011
The Slap
01 December 2011
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Thomas Keneally on Australians from Eureka to the Diggers
01 December 2011
The Talking Point: Greasy Polls
29 November 2011
Matthew Reilly
20 November 2011
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Nina Funnell on the Teen Sexting Panic
18 November 2011
Simon Leys on Literary Criticism: Why and How
17 November 2011
Sad/Angry/Happy: Angry
14 November 2011
Sad/Angry/Happy: Sad
11 November 2011
Paul Keating
09 November 2011
Jane Gleeson-White on Monks, Maths and Magic
08 November 2011
Bill Gammage on the Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
08 November 2011
You Say You Want a Revolution: Not Sorry Enough
03 November 2011
You Say You Want a Revolution: The Arab Spring
02 November 2011
You Say You Want a Revolution: Emmanuel Jal Speaks
31 October 2011
Seven Billion: It's Getting Crowded in Here!
26 October 2011
Susan Mitchell on Tony Abbott: Too Dangerous to Lead
26 October 2011
State of Design: Gareth Pugh
25 October 2011
No One Understands Me: Teen Diary Readings
25 October 2011
Jon Ronson
20 October 2011
Michael Kirby
20 October 2011
Intelligence Squared: A Tax Won't Fix Climate Change
18 October 2011
Tanveer Ahmed on Occidentalism: Why Can't Rissoles Be Exotic?
14 October 2011
Leah Chishugi
12 October 2011
Sisters in Crime
07 October 2011
Jonathan Safran Foer
05 October 2011
Emilie Zoey Baker in Defence of Slam Poetry
05 October 2011
The Meanjin Tournament
04 October 2011
Anita Shreve
03 October 2011
Anne Manne on Disability: The New Frontier of Justice
29 September 2011
State of Design: Kyung-won Chung
27 September 2011
Don Watson
23 September 2011
Quarterly Essay: Bad News - Murdoch's 'Australian' and the Shaping of the Nation
22 September 2011
Eva Gabrielsson
20 September 2011
Paul Cleary on Australia's Mining Boom
20 September 2011
The Late Great: Marcus Clarke
19 September 2011
Jay Bahadur
19 September 2011
State of Design: Troika
13 September 2011
Intelligence Squared: There is No Justification for Risking Australian Lives in Afghanistan
12 September 2011
Christine Nixon on the Nature of Leadership
06 September 2011
Two Sides of the Story: Beyond the Couplet
02 September 2011
State of Design: Milton Glaser
02 September 2011
Theatrical Tendencies
31 August 2011
John Carroll on Violence and the Modern Middle Class
24 August 2011
Unaccustomed as I am...
23 August 2011
State of Design: Ilse Crawford
22 August 2011
Emotional Cities
19 August 2011
Two Sides of the Story: Creative Journos
16 August 2011
The Talking Point: Taking Liberties With the Press
15 August 2011
Does WikiLeaks Matter?
12 August 2011
Caroline Brothers on the World's Displaced Children
12 August 2011
Father Patrick Desbois: Holocaust by Bullets
09 August 2011
Amos Oz - Israel: War, Peace and Storytelling
09 August 2011
Human Rights and East Timor: Remembering East Timor’s Former Political Prisoners
03 August 2011
Thomas Friedman
01 August 2011
Richard Gill on Musical Literacy
01 August 2011
The Late Great: Ruth Park
29 July 2011
TJ Clark: The Art Historian and the Poet
27 July 2011
George McEncroe: 'Change is as Good as a Holiday'
26 July 2011
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: 2011 Shortlist Announcement
25 July 2011
James Boyce: The Truth About Melbourne
25 July 2011
The Writer's Banquet: Meals on Wheels
21 July 2011
Texts in the City: The Secret River
20 July 2011
Naomi Chazan
18 July 2011
Julie Posetti on Making Journalism Social: Twitter's Transformative Effect
18 July 2011
The Walter Lippmann Memorial Lecture
13 July 2011
Texts in the City: On the Waterfront
12 July 2011
Sarah Maddison: Beyond White Guilt
11 July 2011
Griffith Review - Rebel, Public Nuisance and Dreamer: Julian Assange Standing Alone
11 July 2011
The Writer's Banquet: Literary Feasts
09 July 2011
Sir Terry Pratchett: 'Imagination, not intelligence, made us human'
08 July 2011
Texts in the City: Twelve Angry Men
08 July 2011
Michael Connelly
06 July 2011
Kate O'Reilly: Are Women Finally Taking Over the World?
01 July 2011
Gail Dines
30 June 2011
Quarterly Essay - Fair Share: Country and City in Australia by Judith Brett
28 June 2011
Texts in the City: Year of Wonders
28 June 2011
Tony Conrad: Music and Mathematics (audio only)
28 June 2011
Jean-Herve Peron Speaks (audio only)
27 June 2011
Ingrid Betancourt
24 June 2011
Texts in the City: Great Short Works
24 June 2011
Two Sides of the Story: Written for the Telly
22 June 2011
Intelligence Squared: Public Funding of Private Education
20 June 2011
Bruce Guthrie on 'A Requiem for Newspapers'
15 June 2011
Making History: Mark McKenna on Manning Clark
15 June 2011
Simon Groth on 'L'Odeur des Livres' and Other Whiffy Arguments
14 June 2011
Texts in the City: Ransom
10 June 2011
Michael Cunningham
08 June 2011
Emma Forrest
07 June 2011
Izzeldin Abuelaish
06 June 2011
Texts in the City: A Streetcar Named Desire
03 June 2011
Injustice Anywhere: Human Rights in Practice
01 June 2011
David Mitchell
31 May 2011
Guy Rundle on the New Tabloid Racialism
25 May 2011
Fatima Bhutto
25 May 2011
Texts in the City: Things We Didn't See Coming
24 May 2011
Lette's Go to the Opera
20 May 2011
Mandy Brett on Why the World Needs Editors Even if it Doesn't Need Books
20 May 2011
The Writers of Janet Clarke Hall
17 May 2011
Emerging Writers' Festival: Stories from the Trenches
16 May 2011
Leslie Cannold: The Problem with Feminists
13 May 2011
The Talking Point: Banging on the Ceiling
12 May 2011
Dumbing Down Democracy: Tanner and Megalogenis
11 May 2011
Meg Rosoff
10 May 2011
The Writer's Banquet: The Writer's Kitchen
09 May 2011
Texts in the City: Richard III
06 May 2011
Robert Manne on the New Australian Complacency
05 May 2011
Jeffrey Archer
02 May 2011
So Who the Bloody Hell Are We?: The Fair Go
02 May 2011
The Talking Point: Gagging for Freedom
29 April 2011
Dave Graney: Social Networks and the Unknown
21 April 2011
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Announcement
19 April 2011
David Tacey: Breaking Free from Modern Medicine
18 April 2011
So Who the Bloody Hell Are We?: The Quarter Acre Block
18 April 2011
Griffith Review: Ways of Seeing
15 April 2011
The Talking Point: Is Australian Democracy Broken?
14 April 2011
So Who the Bloody Hell Are We?: Sentimental Bloke
12 April 2011
Texts in the City: Life of Pi
11 April 2011
Intelligence Squared: Both Major Parties are Failing the Australian People
11 April 2011
Texts in the City: Cosi
08 April 2011
Meanland: The Evolution of the Bookshop
07 April 2011
Tim Soutphommasane: The Pleasures of Hate Mail
05 April 2011
Angus Trumble - The Finger
04 April 2011
Quarterly Essay - The Good Life: David Malouf
01 April 2011
Texts in the City: Dreams from My Father
30 March 2011
She Must Be Seeing Things
29 March 2011
Drama Queens
28 March 2011
Ben Pobjie: In Defence of Offensiveness
25 March 2011
Texts in the City: Witness
23 March 2011
Larissa Behrendt: Why is overcoming Indigenous disadvantage so hard?
22 March 2011
Yannick Haenel: Jan Karski, The Messenger
21 March 2011
Texts in the City: The Crucible
21 March 2011
Annie Proulx
18 March 2011
Andrew O'Hagan
16 March 2011
Joanne Faulkner: The Enemies of Innocence
16 March 2011
Meanland: Reading Without Privacy
12 March 2011
Texts in the City: Maestro
09 March 2011
Coming Out Stories
08 March 2011
The Only Gay Book in the Village
07 March 2011
Helen Razer: Giving Up On Art
04 March 2011
Fright Night
03 March 2011
John Wood: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
02 March 2011
The Late Great: Patrick White
01 March 2011
Sophie Cunningham: Still Shocking
25 February 2011
The Talking Point: Egypt and Beyond
24 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Murong Xuecun (English)
24 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Murong Xuecun (Chinese)
24 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Dagmar Leupold (German)
24 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Dagmar Leupold (English)
24 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Yannick Haenel (French)
22 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Yannick Haenel (English)
22 February 2011
Secrets and Lies: How WikiLeaks Has Changed The World
20 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: John Birmingham
18 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Archie Roach
18 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Sonya Hartnett
18 February 2011
Jon Faine: Why All The Complaining?
16 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Nam Le
15 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Abha Dawesar
15 February 2011
Murong Xuecun
15 February 2011
Voices From Elsewhere: Mem Fox
15 February 2011
Reading on Vocation with Ramona Koval: Gardeners
09 February 2011
Ethically Speaking: Advertising
04 February 2011
Imagine a World Without Memory
01 February 2011
The Changing Architecture of Global Governance
31 January 2011
Peter James
28 January 2011
Kate Morton
24 January 2011
Jake Adelstein
21 January 2011
Berlin Dayz
18 January 2011
Reading On Vocation with Ramona Koval: Musicians
17 January 2011
More than a Game: The Culture of Footy
12 January 2011
Nicolas Dickner
12 January 2011
Ray Moynihan: Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
11 January 2011
Reading on Vocation: Nuns
09 January 2011
Something To Believe In: Spirituality and Faith
21 December 2010
The Written Death
20 December 2010
Bryce Courtenay
16 December 2010
Musically Speaking with Clare Bowditch, Stephen Cummings and Rebecca Barnard
15 December 2010
Simon Winchester
13 December 2010
Hamlet: A Graphic Tale
10 December 2010
Critical Failure: Popular Music
01 December 2010
Shaun Micallef
26 November 2010
Mark Wakeham: Environment
26 November 2010
Tony Wheeler: Thomas Coryate, The First Tourist
25 November 2010
George Megalogenis: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era
23 November 2010
Greg Davies: Law And Order
19 November 2010
Lenore Skenazy: Free Range Kids
18 November 2010
Vandana Shiva
17 November 2010
David Suzuki
15 November 2010
David Astle: Confessions of a Wordaholic
12 November 2010
Cath Smith: Social Equity in Melbourne
10 November 2010
Paul Mees: Public Transport
09 November 2010
Hannie Rayson: Grabbing the Limelight
08 November 2010
Feminism Has Failed: Wendy McCarthy
04 November 2010
Monica McInerney
03 November 2010
Jonathan Walker on illuminated books
01 November 2010
Feminism Has Failed: Gay Alcorn
01 November 2010
Peter Doherty
01 November 2010
Gala Night of Storytelling: John Marsden
29 October 2010
Travel Writing: Why It Sucks
26 October 2010
Salley Vickers
22 October 2010
Good Life, Good Death: The Morality of Mortality
20 October 2010
Sophie Black - In Defence of Online News
18 October 2010
Tom Elliott: Why Hedge-Fund Managers Aren’t Evil
15 October 2010
Casey Bennetto sings the finalists for John Curtin Prize for Journalism
14 October 2010
Feminism Has Failed: Monica Dux
13 October 2010
Christian Lander
13 October 2010
Paul Kelly
11 October 2010
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Theme and Slideshow
07 October 2010
Quarterly Essay: China, America and Australia's Future in Asia
05 October 2010
Feminism Has Failed: Stephen Mayne
05 October 2010
Feminism Has Failed: Virginia Hausegger
04 October 2010
Feminism Has Failed: Jennifer Byrne
01 October 2010
Boy In the Moon: Ian Brown
28 September 2010
Rewiring Our Brains: Nicholas Carr
28 September 2010
The Death of the Newspaper: Who's to Blame?
23 September 2010
Fiona Scott-Norman: Disco: The Vinyl Solution
21 September 2010
Meanland: Copyright vs Creativity with Cory Doctorow
21 September 2010
Critical Failure: Visual Arts
20 September 2010
Critical Failure: Books
16 September 2010
Critical Failure: Theatre
16 September 2010
Critical Failure: Film
16 September 2010
Kon Karapanagiotidis: Why So Frightened?
16 September 2010
Tanveer Ahmed: Australia Has Not Escaped Its Racist Past
13 September 2010
Maria Tumarkin
06 September 2010
Hugo Award winner China Mieville
01 September 2010
Peter FitzSimons
30 August 2010
Reading on Vocation with Ramona Koval: Scientists
27 August 2010
George Megalogenis Makes Sense of the Election
26 August 2010
God Bothering: An Australian Literary Review Discussion
25 August 2010
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
24 August 2010
Sue-Ann Post: The Case Against Monogamy
20 August 2010
Griffith Review Prosper or Perish: Exploring the Limits to Growth
17 August 2010
Bret Easton Ellis
13 August 2010
Hanifa Deen: Muslim Fatigue, or Aren’t you Tired of the “M” Word Too?
12 August 2010
State of the Arts Lecture by Jonathan Mills
10 August 2010
Tim Soutphommasane: Why Australia Should Have National Service
04 August 2010
Reading On Vocation with Ramona Koval: Filmmakers
04 August 2010
A Night of Two Tones
03 August 2010
Adam Bandt: How Two-Party Politics Has Failed Australian Voters
02 August 2010
Hanifa Deen: Australia Has Not Escaped Its Racist Past
23 July 2010
Father Bob Maguire: Building a Civil Society Despite Elections
22 July 2010
John Birmingham
22 July 2010
ABR Calibre Prize: Seeing Truganini
16 July 2010
Love Stories: Literature's Great Romances
14 July 2010
Erotic Fan Fiction
13 July 2010
A Night of Chekhov
12 July 2010
Rodney Croome: The Case for Gay Marriage
09 July 2010
Ken Crispin: The Quest For Justice
07 July 2010
Peter Carey
05 July 2010
Tribute to Peter Porter
01 July 2010
Ethically Speaking: Sporting Ethics
30 June 2010
Monica Dux: The Happy Gestator
28 June 2010
Meanland: Chris Meade and Paul Callaghan
22 June 2010
David Marr: Power Trip - The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd
21 June 2010
Tim Ferguson: Secrets Of Sex
21 June 2010
Reading on Vocation with Ramona Koval: Doctors
21 June 2010
Shane Maloney: In Praise of Shhhh
15 June 2010
Greening Capitalism Panel Discussion
13 June 2010
The Politics of Climate Change
13 June 2010
Innovating the Cities - David Owen
12 June 2010
Innovating the Cities Panel Discussion
12 June 2010
The Ethics of Climate Change Panel Discussion
12 June 2010
The Ethics of Climate Change - Kartikeya Sarabhai
12 June 2010
The Ethics of Climate Change - Peter Singer
11 June 2010
The Ethics of Climate Change - Tim Soutphommasane
11 June 2010
Innovation, Energy And Climate Change In The Developing World Panel Discussion
11 June 2010
Innovation, Energy And Climate Change In The Developing World - Tim Costello
10 June 2010
Greening Capitalism - James Cameron
10 June 2010
Carbon Down on the Farm Panel Discussion
10 June 2010
Carbon Down on the Farm - Michael Inwood
10 June 2010
Carbon Down on the Farm - Johannes Lehmann
10 June 2010
Prosperity Without Growth - Tim Jackson
10 June 2010
Future Energy Solutions Panel Discussion
09 June 2010
Greening Capitalism - David Blood
09 June 2010
Emissions Trading Panel Discussion
09 June 2010
Emissions Trading - Denny Ellerman
09 June 2010
Emissions Trading - Richard Folland
08 June 2010
Future Energy Solutions: Grant King
07 June 2010
Julian Burnside: Mind Your Language
07 June 2010
Innovation in a Changing Climate
02 June 2010
Chris Flynn: Heroic Hounds
31 May 2010
Colm Toibin in conversation
31 May 2010
Casey Bennetto on his Lunchbox/Soapbox
27 May 2010
Nicki Greenberg talks about her Gatsby
26 May 2010
Colm Toibin reads from Brooklyn
24 May 2010
Jana Wendt
20 May 2010
Ethically Speaking: Business and Ethics
18 May 2010
David Astle Re-works Words
17 May 2010
LM Robinson: Little Lonsdale's Saucy History
14 May 2010
Kate Holden: Miss Misogyny
10 May 2010
Naomi Wolf
06 May 2010
Lee Child
30 April 2010
Robin Boyd: Australian Ugliness
28 April 2010
Les Murray
27 April 2010
Overland: Mungo MacCallum
27 April 2010
Waleed Aly: The Future of Conservatism
27 April 2010
Reading the City: Historians on Melbourne
26 March 2010
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Catherine Deveny
23 March 2010
Clive Hamilton: climate change crisis
17 March 2010
Irvine Welsh: 'a happy camper'
17 March 2010
Sarah Dunant: 'being lost and being afraid is part of writing'
15 March 2010
Lunchbox/ Soapbox: Toni Jordan
12 March 2010
Geoff Dyer: 'good at sport'
10 March 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Paul Kelly
09 March 2010
Malcolm Fraser Part One
08 March 2010
Malcolm Fraser Part Two
07 March 2010
Malcolm Fraser Part Three
05 March 2010
Lunchbox/ Soapbox: George Megalogenis
03 March 2010
Meanland: Reading in a time of change
01 March 2010
Debut Mondays: Sofie Laguna
01 March 2010
Debut Mondays: Bob Franklin
26 February 2010
Lunchbox/Soapbox: Peter Singer on why we need a beef tax
26 February 2010
Mark Danner talks to Fran Kelly
25 February 2010
Debut Mondays: Madeleine Hamilton
25 February 2010
Debut Mondays: Andrew McDonald
24 February 2010
Ethically Speaking: Media and Journalism
19 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Christos Tsiolkas
19 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: John Safran
19 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Chloe Hooper
18 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: David Malouf
18 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Alex Miller
18 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Tara June Winch
18 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Judith Lucy
18 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Shane Maloney
18 February 2010
A Gala Night of Storytelling: Cate Kennedy
15 February 2010
Michael McGirr: "the closest I'll ever get to TV"
15 February 2010
Max Barry: "forced to read Twilight...
28 January 2010
Ezra Bix: "poetry, poesy, poems sing the truths...
28 January 2010
Jane Clifton: "where character is at the heart of it."
21 January 2010
Wells Tower: 'the clever cold architect of your mind'
21 January 2010
MJ Hyland: 'it's really tricky shit'
20 January 2010
Krissy Kneen: "strange sex with goats"
20 January 2010
Craig Sherborne: 'grit and blood-brown dust'
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