Launch of the Australian Children’s Laureate 2024 - 2025

Celebrate the new Australian Children’s Laureate, the ambassador for Australian children's literature nationally and on the world stage. 

Join the Australian Children Laureate’s Foundation for a livestreamed morning of performances, readings and creative activities to celebrate the program launch of the newly appointed Australian Children's Laureate for 2024 and 2025: writer and illustrator Sally Rippin. The Australian Children's Laureate embraces the transformational power of reading, creativity and story in the lives of young Australians. A national and international ambassador for Australian children’s literature, the Laureate is appointed on a biennial basis, and selected from our country’s leading authors and/or illustrators. Gabrielle Wang, the outgoing Laureate, called her appointment her ‘greatest honour’.  

Presented in partnership with the Australian Children’s Laureate Foundation  

Wheeler Education

Wheeler Education encourages creativity and critical thinking on a range of issues, offering a range of events that prioritises the voices and experiences of young people – on the stage, and off. In our dynamic and interactive events, we’ll hear from young people about the challenges facing them right now, we’ll equip them with the skills they need to participate in important public conversations and, most of all, we’ll celebrate their passions, their ideas, and their stories.