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The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9094 7800

Address: 176 Little Lonsdale Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://wheelercentre.com

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21.01.2022 Kara Baker is a fashion designer, whose business stopped dead on 13 March this year, when a host of major events including Melbourne Fashion Festival were cancelled. In this episode of The Leap Year, she talks with Sally about how major historical events influence the evolution of fashion, how the pandemic might change outdated and unsustainable fashion business models and how women might want to burn their leggings after lockdown: https://www.wheelercentre.com//13-kara-baker-on-covid-and-

15.01.2022 Osman Faruqi is a journalist, writer and editor. He is the editor of 7am, the daily news podcast of The Saturday Paper. He has worked as an editor at the ABC and was an award-winning reporter with the flagship audio documentary program Background Briefing. He presents on the ABC TV’s arts and culture program The Mix, and was previously News and Politics Editor at Junkee. For Working with Sound, he spoke to us about the ethical, and practical challenges of producing a daily news podcast; and about his interests outside of news that inspire his journalistic processes.

14.01.2022 At the start of the year, 23-year-old Will Smith was pursuing his dreams in Boston on a competitive rowing scholarship. When he returned to Australia in March, he was diagnosed with Covid-19. Eight months on, he speaks to Sally about the effects of ‘long Covid’ and how the virus has changed the course of his life: https://www.wheelercentre.com//17-will-smith-on-getting-be

14.01.2022 'I’ll spend one day talking to the reef scientist who discovered coral bleaching, the next to a young woman in public housing in Melbourne, and the next to a cafe owner in outback NSW.' Laura Murphy-Oates is the presenter and senior producer of Guardian Australia’s daily news podcast Full Story. Before that, she was a presenter on Triple J’s Hack, and a TV journalist at The Feed on SBS VICELAND. For Working with Sound, she spoke to us about marrying daily news and audio documentary, and navigating the serious and the silly when it comes to news presenting.

13.01.2022 It's been a huge year in food media, with major debates on questions of authenticity, appropriation and representation happening in Australia and abroad. For this Broadly Speaking talk on 18 November, we'll bring together three superb food writers to chew over the debates and developments of 2020. We'll hear from James Beard Awardwinning writer and Ugly Delicious guest Osayi Endolyn, bestselling Sydney-based food writer and cook Hetty McKinnon and The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry podcaster and freelance writer Lee Tran Lam. They'll talk about their personal food histories and philosophies, and how they’re working towards a more inclusive and delicious food world.

12.01.2022 When the New South Wales-Victoria border opened up on Monday, Veronica Haccou was among those who felt great relief. Veronica lives in Albury, New South Wales, and works in Wodonga, Victoria. She'd been navigating daily border checkpoints since July, just to go to work. In this episode of The Leap Year, she talks with Sally about the stark, surreal contrast between the two border towns during Victoria's second lockdown and about the widespread exhaustion in a community that has lived through devastating bushfires and a pandemic in a single year: https://www.wheelercentre.com//18-veronica-haccou-on-borde

11.01.2022 Dr Mario D’Cruz is a medical educator and practitioner, whose work is focused on spinal and mobility impairment. Mario himself was injured in a car accident 20 years ago and lives with quadriplegia. In this episode of The Leap Year, he talks to Sally about the challenges and upsides of the pandemic and about the complicated dynamics of care as a doctor and as a person living with disability: https://www.wheelercentre.com//16-mario-d-cruz-on-taking-c

09.01.2022 Luke Davies is a poet, novelist and screenwriter, best known for Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction, and the Academy Award-nominated film, Lion. This year, he has found himself alone in Los Angeles with the thing a writer wishes for most: all the time in the world. In this episode of The Leap Year, he speaks to Sally Warhaft about how he is passing these slow days, his feelings on America, and his deep longing for Australia: https://www.wheelercentre.com///12-luke-davies-on-solitude

06.01.2022 How will 2020 shift our sense of our history, our environment and ourselves? And how might it change our ideas about the future? In the new anthology, 'Fire Flood Plague', leading Australian writers grapple with the chaos of 2020; a year that began with raging bushfires, then descended into Covid-19 confusion. At this very special online event on Tuesday 8 December, we'll hear from 'Fire Flood Plague' writers as they read from their work and reflect on the extraordinary scen...es of 2020; scenes of Black Lives Matter protests, toilet paper wars, January's smoke-filled cities and February's torrential east-coast rains. Join Kim Scott, Jane Rawson, Melanie Cheng, Billy Griffiths, Gabrielle Chan, Kate Cole-Adams and Omar Sakr. Introduced by Adam Suckling and hosted by Sophie Cunningham: https://www.wheelercentre.com//fire-flood-plague-making-se

06.01.2022 The public health response to Covid-19 in remote Indigenous communities has been a remarkable success story of the pandemic in Australia. In this episode of The Leap Year, Sally speaks with the former Northern Territory politician Alison Anderson, about how communities, health services and all levels of government worked together to keep Covid-19 out: https://www.wheelercentre.com//19-alison-anderson-on-remot

05.01.2022 When it comes to economic equality in Australia, the Covid-19 pandemic has turned what was already a gendered gap between women and men into a gaping chasm. Women have lost more jobs and working hours since March 2020 than men. The economic sectors primarily occupied by women are among the most poorly paid, the most casualised and the most vulnerable to the unique circumstances of the pandemic. At this live-streamed panel discussion on Wednesday 25 November, Leanne Miller, Angela Jackson, Rowan O'Hagan and host Gabrielle Chan will talk through these intersecting issues and discuss how they impact the daily lives of women presented in partnership with Women's Health Goulburn North East.

05.01.2022 The State of the (Writing) Nation is an annual address from a prominent Australian writer. It's a chance to reflect on what's happening, and where we're heading, in Australian literature and publishing. This year, on Tuesday 17 November, Maria Tumarkin will give the address online. Tumarkin is the author of four books, including the multi-award-winning creative non-fiction work, Axiomatic. She is also a recipient of the prestigious 2020 Windham Campbell Prize. In her addres...s, Tumarkin will propose ditching some conventional arguments for literature as a public good. Is literature truly necessary for the health of the nation; does it heighten empathy and makes us better people? Tumarkin will assert that these arguments are dead-ends, and she'll put forward some other arguments for Australian literature in 2020. Presented in partnership with Writers Victoria. See more