The Wheeler Centre

To celebrate the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship’s fifth anniversary, and to announce the 2016 winner, we’re bringing together four great writers (three of whom are past Fellowship winners) to discuss their work. Janine Burke, a judge of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, will interview Stephany Steggall, Maxine Beneba Clarke and Caroline Baum as they discuss the art, the attraction and the dangers of writing a life.

If you remember the 1980s in Australia, you remember Ken Done. One of Australia's most widely-recognised visual icons spoke with Penny Modra about art, design, the creative impulse and the era that defined him.

How does fiction intersect with fact in depictions of war? And can fiction be used to call other fictions into question? Join Mark Dapin for some surprising insights on a narrative and military history. Hosted by Chris Flynn.

Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, is one of the world's preeminent experts in the art of philanthropy. Join him as he discusses global trends in giving, and the differing roles of philanthropy in Australia and the US, with Peter Mares

Meet Penny Arcade: performance artist, author, actress and documentary-maker. A former ‘superstar’ of Andy Warhol’s Factory, Arcade is an enduring figure of 1960s New York counterculture. In conversation with Richard Watts.

In the keynote address of the 2015 New News conference, celebrated business journalist Ross Gittins argues that the willingness of Fairfax and News Corp to embrace a different kind of journalism will determine whether they survive, or have their place taken by new and smaller outfits with no legacy of old ways.

Visiting Melbourne on tour with the reformed Sleater-Kinney, Carrie Brownstein rests her guitar for a chat with Myf Warhurst. Listen in as the pair discuss pop music, fandom, the process of writing – and the act of performance, on the page and on stage.

Etgar Keret visits Melbourne to discuss his diverse career – covering his short stories, radio journalism, film and TV, graphic novels and children’s books – as well as his personal essays in The Seven Good Years about family and fatherhood in Tel Aviv. Delve into creativity, conflict and black humour with one of Israel’s most celebrated writers – in conversation with Ramona Koval.

In conversation with Maxine Beneba Clarke, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen talks about immigrant identity, activism and an extraordinary career in journalism.

In the first of our Question Time series for 2016, Madeleine Morris hosts a full hour of audience Q&A with the Grattan Institute’s Transport Program director Marion Terrill, Ken Morrison CEO of the Property Council of Australia, and Jenny Smith CEO of the Council to Homeless Persons. In this episode, you'll hear our guests tackle questions on property booms, affordable housing and urban planning.