The Kookaburra follows Diana, a year on from her husband’s death, as she reads his old emails and tries to rescue an injured kookaburra. The titular kookaburra subverts how animals often appear in ...

Henry Reynolds’ ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down. When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in ...

Disillusioned with her life in New York, Ruth returns to a lake town in Guatemala where she had been happy a decade earlier. There, in Panajachel, she meets two very different women: the calm and ...

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Margot McGovern’s love letter to 90s horror films will keep you on the edge of your seat. Four girls share a cabin in an abandoned town where the ghost of Smiling Jack haunts isolated campers. Shelley ...

As part of The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowship program, Jessie Perrin worked on The Two Girls, a novella following a couple’s ‘not-divorce’ and their child’s experience of it. It explores a ...

Celebrate 100 editions of Quarterly Essay as special guests Sean Kelly, David Marr and Laura Tingle discuss the power, impact and legacy of the agenda-setting journal. Three of Australia’s most ...

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The richness of Linda’s Tongan heritage has shaped her musical talent since birth. Traditional Tongan music and dance filled Linda’s childhood home, enhanced by her family’s ties to the close-knit ...

Join Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry, hosts of the Guardian’s political podcast Back to Back Barries, for a clear-eyed analysis of the 2025 Australian federal election. After five weeks of relentless ...

This event is currently sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email [email protected]. An esteemed panel of experts come together to discuss why we must fight to ...

Kim Scott has twice won Australia’s premier literary award, the Miles Franklin (for Benang and That Deadman Dance) among many other Australian literary prizes. His most recent novel is Taboo (Picador, ...