Melbourne Writers Festival

In this illuminating discussion, key figures involved in the creation of the Victorian Treaty – including 2023-26 Co-Chair of the First Peoples’ Assembly Ngarra Murray, and CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, member of the First Peoples'

One year on from the Federal Election, it's time to take stock. What’s the state of our national political climate and of the major and minor parties? What does the Albanese government stand for? How should we approach our relationship with the USA an

Pioneering Noongar doctor and medical researcher Professor Sandra Eades (co-author of First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture) and Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist Amy McQuire (Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media) explore

In this stunning conversation, celebrated authors Emily Maguire (Rapture) and Josephine Rowe (Little World) cover the mundane, the miraculous and writing the ineffable.  Hear them discuss their latest works exploring faith, fate and the nature of beli

Santilla Chingaipe (Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia), Sita Sargeant (She Shapes History) and Steve Vizard (Nation, Memory, Myth: Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary) come together to bring to light misunderstood, mythologised or lesser-