With Nicole Abadee.

Anita Heiss, the award-winning author of 23 books, talks to Nicole Abadee about her latest historical novel, Dirrayawadha, a tribute to the courage of the Wiradyuri nation and the enduring power of love.

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Sun 02 Mar, 2:30pm | East Stage

With Gareth Evans.

The catalogue of crimes against humanity should engender both collective and individual shame, but has it? Who should we hold responsible? And has bringing the criminals to account made any difference to their victims? Tobias Buck, Geoffrey Robertson and Dorcy Rugamba discuss these questions with Gareth Evans.

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Sun 02 Mar, 1:15pm | East Stage

With Nicole Abadee.

Markus Zusak’s family has taken on three feral dogs over the years. The author of Three Wild Dogs speaks with Nicole Abadee (who has met those dogs) about the havoc they have wreaked but also the deep love they have given and received.

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Sun 02 Mar, 12:00pm | East Stage

With Beejay Silcox.

Does a moral compass matter in crime fiction? What if a protagonist is untested by ethical boundaries? Does erasing the line between right and wrong help or hinder a story? Crime novelists Michael Robotham, Louise Milligan and Mandy Beaumont discuss these ideas with Beejay Silcox.

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Sun 02 Mar, 110:45am | East Stage

With David Marr.

Despite the promise that we were “all in it together”, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a flight from sociability: life no longer lived in any collective sense but as atomised individuals and a retreat to interiority in the name of self-care and safety. While escape from social life may have been a relief for some, has it exacerbated a neoliberal culture of hyper-individualism, narcissism and alienation? Julia Baird, Geraldine Brooks and Rachel Kushner join a discussion chaired by Late Night Live’s David Marr.

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Sun 02 Mar, 9:30am | East Stage

With David Lesar.

In conversation with David Leser, Alone Australia inaugural winner Gina Chick discusses her memoir, We Are the Stars, about a self-described misfit with a preference for bare feet.

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Sat 01 Mar, 5:00pm | East Stage

With Kerry O'Brien.

Professor Clare Wright discusses her latest work with Kerry O’Brien. Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the birth of the landrights movement.

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Sat 01 Mar, 3:45pm | East Stage

With Late Night Live's David Marr.

Has the Australian myth of a fair go finally been broken? Are we as divided as ever by class, ethnicity and identity? Join Bob Carr, Rick Morton and Rebecca Huntley in a discussion chaired by Late Night Live’s David Marr.

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Sat 01 Mar, 2:30pm | East Stage

With Anton Enus.Journalist and author Stan Grant’s new book is Murriyang, a meditation on love, art and the memories, history and relationships that have shaped him. He tells Anton Enus about the spiritual practice and grace that underpin the book.

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Sat 01 Mar, 1:15pm | East Stage

With Georgina Godwin.One of Australia’s most esteemed writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her seventh novel, Theory and Practice, with Georgina Godwin. It is a genre-bending, dazzlingly inventive and witty story about what we know and what we feel.

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Sat 01 Mar, 12:00pm | East Stage