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The Next Chapter Showcase Edition

2 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Veronica Sullivan, Lian Low, Yamiko Marama,...

The Next Chapter is the Wheeler Centre’s scheme for writers – offering emerging writers from marginalised...

The Invisible Crime

3 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Nicole Precel, Greg Barns, Katrina Marson, and...

The Invisible Crime: Are We Failing Victims of Sexual Violence?

Jung Chang: Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

5 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Jung Chang and Leanne Hall

This event has been cancelled.

Yanis Varoufakis: Debt, Disobedience and Democracy Today

5 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Yanis Varoufakis and Nassim Khadem

How do we define democracy in the 21st Century? How do we define liberty and progress?

Bob Brown: Australia Ablaze

10 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Sally Warhaft and Bob Brown

The bushfires that raged across the country this summer have caused environmental and economic damage that...

History and Beyond

12 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Raylene Brown, Jacqui Durrant, Liz Conor, Robynne...

Victoria’s north-eastern regions are rich with dramatic scenery – from the majestic Alpine ranges to the...

SAIGON: Between Life and History

13 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Benjamin Law, Caroline Guiela Nguyen, and...

People – families – of diaspora carry the traces of change: new circumstances, different languages,...

How on Earth: Christiana Figueres and Ross Garnaut on Climate Solutions Now

13 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Christiana Figueres, Ross Garnaut, and Andrew Wear

Christiana Figueres, the architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement, sees the 2020s as a critical moment of...

Liam Pieper and Josephine Rowe

16 March 2020
The Wheeler Centre
Ronnie Scott, Josephine Rowe, and Liam Pieper

Two prolific Australian writers have recently published new works of fiction.