With Richard Denniss.

Australia’s favourite financial journalist, Alan Kohler, has much to say about the country’s enduring housing crisis and the solutions we need. He shares the thinking in his book The Great Divide with Richard Denniss.Event details:

Sat 01 Mar, 3:45pm | West Stage

With Steve Bracks.

Journalist and former Labour Party senior policy adviser Tom Baldwin explains the complexities and contradictions of Sir Keir Starmer, Labour’s most working-class leader in a generation to Steve Bracks.

Sat 01 Mar, 2:30pm | West Stage

With Nicole Abadee.

In Signs of Damage, bestselling and multi-award-winning novelist Diana Reid writes about memory, morality and the difference between understanding someone and explaining them. She talks to Nicole Abadee about her latest novel.

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Sat 01 Mar, 1:15pm | West Stage

With Sarah Martin.

A call-out to anxious parents and grandparents to join Sarah Martin as she asks Dr Norman Swan what to do about sleep, diet, school refusal, social media, what genetics determine and what you can and can’t change.

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Sat 01 Mar, 12:00pm | West Stage

With Annabel Crabb.

Acclaimed chef Ben Shewry of Attica opens up to Annabel Crabb about his memoir Uses for Obsession, which details a toxic hospitality culture, an oppressive restaurant review system and the author’s own unwavering pursuit of perfection.

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Sat 01 Mar, 10:45am | West Stage

With Michelle de Kretser.

Pankaj Mishra sees the polarised response to Gaza as a clash between the West’s view of the Holocaust as a unique moral reference point and the rest of the world’s traumatic experience of colonialism. He explains his views to Michelle de Kretser.

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Sat 01 Mar, 9:30am | West Stage

With Farrin Foster.

Lauren Fuge, a science writer and traveller, explores with Farrin Foster what it is that drives us to traverse seas and continents, from the fjords of the Pacific Northwest to the geology of outback Australia to the edges of the known universe.

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Wed 05 Mar, 5:00pm | North Stage

With Walter Marsh.

A group of old friends, a grieving mother, a lying bride and a sweltering Australian beach. Rebecca Heath talks to Walter Marsh about her third psychological thriller, The Wedding Party.

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Wed 05 Mar, 3:45pm | North Stage

With Farrin Foster.

Finegan Kruckemeyer is an award-winning playwright, whose works have been performed on six continents and in eight languages. Farrin Foster talks to Finegan about his astonishing debut novel The End and Everything Before It.

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Wed 05 Mar, 2:30pm | North Stage

With Walter Marsh.

Stephen Orr discusses the complex interconnections of family and community, memory and place, commitment and contribution in Shining Like the Sun with Walter Marsh.

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Wed 05 Mar, 1:15pm | North Stage