Louise Swinn, chair of the 2019 Stella Prize judging panel, and Vicki Laveau-Harvie, the winner of this year's award for her memoir, The Erratics, discuss the winning book and the evolution of the Stella Prize.

The F Word Address is our annual talk from an outstanding Australian woman on a pressing feminist issue. This year, our speaker is the phenomenal Alison Whittaker: poet, essayist, legal scholar and Gomeroi woman. In a 30-minute talk, followed by a short interview with host Claire G. Coleman, Whittaker draws on her legal research and writing work to consider the limits of storytelling – and to propose new ways to strengthen and centre storytellers themselves.

In 2013, Graeme Simsion published his first novel, The Rosie Project, and the world fell in love with its big-hearted, socially inept protagonist, Don Tillman. Though some readers and reviewers read Don as a character who was ‘on the spectrum’, Simsion himself has resisted labels in public discussions of his wildly successful series of romantic comedy novels. In conversation with Clem Bastow – who has written about her own recent autism diagnosis – Simsion and Yenn Purkis – an autistic and non-binary author, blogger, presenter and mentor – discuss neurodiversity and writing. How has the public conversation changed? And what are the responsibilities of writers who choose to portray neurodiverse characters or address their own diagnoses in their work?

In this episode, London-based scholar Kenan Malik outlines his ideas on the limitations of our preoccupation with identity. What do we mean by ‘identity politics’ anyway? And how does the debate about identity relate to the wider debates that now dominate politics, on immigration, populism and diversity? After presenting his own arguments, he discusses them with Vanessa Pigrum and takes audience questions. Join him for a conversation about the complicated meaning of justice, liberation and solidarity today.

In conversation with Jamila Rizvi, investigative journalist Ginger Gorman discusses anonymity, misogyny and the psychology of cyber-sabotage.

Kate O'Halloran, Kirby Fenwick and Nicole Hayes discuss all the thrills and spills of the AFLW season that was, preview the 2019 finals series, and look at the changing tenor of the game.

US-based writer and activist Soraya Chemaly believes embracing and channelling women’s anger is key to gender equality and freedom. Her new book, Rage Becomes Her, examines the subtle and not-so-subtle social mechanisms by which female anger is stymied and redirected throughout the course of women's lives. At the Wheeler Centre, she joins Amy Gray in conversation.

Our panel of experts, including Ruth Barson, Nyadol Nyuon, Hugh de Kretser and Damian Griffis, discuss some of Australia’s human rights failings – the over-imprisonment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and offshore detention for asylum seekers, in particular – within the context of global progress towards improved human rights.

What was the last question you typed into Google, and what does it reveal about you? What does the data on all Google searches since the beginning of the internet tell us about our species? Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a former data scientist at Google and the author of Everybody Lies, a revealing and sometimes horrifying exploration of our accumulated internet search data. He presents his findings, then takes audience questions in conversation with Jacinta Parsons.

For the second instalment of our Dead Calm series, Hilary Harper hosts an honest conversation about death and bereavement. Grief counsellor and author Eliza Henry-Jones, community health worker and ‘death talker’ Molly Carlile and medical anthropologist Gregory Phillips enquire after more supportive and compassionate ways for people, communities, workplaces and governments to deal with lives ending.