Clementine Ford, columnist for Fairfax’s popular website Daily Life, has a reputation for fearlessly addressing issues of gender inequality in a modern world. Fight Like a Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be, and exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women.

As one of the country’s most significant and popular historians, Geoffrey Blainey’s traces our story from the gold rush to the present day.

Cultural historian Gillian Arrighi reveals how the ephemera, manuscript, music and pictures collections are enabling her to piece together this fascinating history, providing new insights into childhood, and Australia’s theatre industry.

Researchers Sally Young and Fay Anderson pose the question: will changes in technology spell the end of traditional press photography? With Andrew Meares, Chief Photographer, Fairfax Media.

Stephen Dupont, acclaimed photojournalist and official war artist, presents a lecture on his artist’s books project, followed by a conversation with Treasures Curator Nat Williams.

Hear author Peter Manning and artist Janet Venn-Brown take an in-depth look at the life and work of an intrepid and passionate artist.

Di Morrissey wanted to tell stories from age 7. Now, she looks back on her years in the Australian media and publishing worlds and speculates on the future.

Di Morrissey has worked around the world as a journalist in newspapers and radio and on television. Since publishing her first novel in 1991, Di has written 24 bestsellers, four children's books and also publishes a community newspaper, The Manning Community News. Di is known for her environmental activisim and has also established a school in Myanmar.

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The latest novel by No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tackles some of the most profoundly challenging yet essential concerns of our time: prejudice, race and justice

Author Paul Ham and Australian journalist and commentator Jack Waterford AM explore how ordinary men on both sides endured this constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately, wiped out.

Australian journalist and commentator Jack Waterford AM launches Clive Hamilton’s latest work, which explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia.