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9.30am Witness: An Investigation into the Brutal Cost of Seeking Justice Louise Milligan M O 10.45am The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well Robert Dessaix N 12 pm The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death and Faith Sarah Krasnostein D A 1.15pm The Inner Self: The Joy of Discovering Who We Really Are Hugh Mackay Y 2.30pm Lateral Histories Chris Flynn & Laura Elvery

3.45pm Honeybee Craig Silvey 1 Mar 5pm The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive Philippe Sands

T 9.30am The Details: On Love, Death and Reading Tegan Bennett Daylight U 10.45am Apeirogon Colum McCann E S 12 pm The Insider Christopher Pyne D 1.15pm The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste A Y 2.30pm The Rise of Independent Media Peter Fray, Margaret Simons, Michael West 3.45pm Return to Uluru John Carty, Mark McKenna

2 Mar 5pm The Price of Free Speech Malcolm Knox, Patrick Mullins

W 9.30am The River Runs Dry Richard Beasley, Grant Rigney, Margaret Simons E D 10.45am Infinite Splendours Sofie Laguna

N 12 pm E The Jenny Hocking S 1.15pm Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends Anne Applebaum D Land of Mates and Favours: Australia’s Crony Capitalism A 2.30pm Y Richard Denniss, Cameron Murray, Marian Wilkinson 3.45pm City Series: A Double Event Matthew Condon, Sophie Cunningham, Paul Daley, 3 Mar Delia Falconer, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Tess Lea, Peter Timms, David Whish-Wilson

[email protected] 9.30am Submit your questions via email at T Reframing the Classics Natalie Haynes #awwlivestream H or Twitter using U 10.45am There Goes the Neighbourhood Chongyi Feng, Geoff Raby R 12 pm Show Me Where it Hurts Kylie Maslen S D 1.15pm What Just Happened? Danielle Celermajer, Gabrielle Chan, Richard McGregor A 2.30pm What Happens Next? Emma Dawson, Richard Denniss, Gideon Haigh Presenting Y Partner 3.45pm Leading Lady: Lowitja’s Legacy Stuart Rintoul 4 Mar 5pm The Lonely Century: Coming together in a World That’s Pulling Apart Noreena Hertz LIVE Mon STREAMING 1 Mar SCHEDULE

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WITNESS THE TIME OF THE BELIEVER THE INNER SELF LATERAL HONEYBEE THE RATLINE OUR LIVES HISTORIES AN INVESTIGATION INTO ENCOUNTERS WITH THE JOY OF DISCOVERING LOVE, LIES AND JUSTICE THE BRUTAL COST OF LOVE, DEATH AND FAITH WHO WE REALLY ARE ON THE TRAIL OF A NAZI GROWING OLDER SEEKING JUSTICE WELL FUGITIVE Chris Flynn LIVE STREAMED FROM Louise Milligan Robert Dessaix Sarah Krasnostein Hugh Mackay Laura Elvery Craig Silvey LONDON, UK Philippe Sands Born of Louise Milligan’s Robert Dessaix’s new book Sarah Krasnostein’s first Hugh Mackay has made Can works of fiction After the blockbuster own brutal experience as is an essential companion book, The Trauma Cleaner, a lifelong study of the inform us more effectively success of Jasper Jones, From the award-winning a witness in the Cardinal for those pondering how to was a runaway bestseller attitudes and behaviours than non-fiction? Chris Craig Silvey’s highly author of the celebrated Pell case, Witness is at age well, and cogitating on and swept literary prizes of Australians, researching Flynn and Laura Elvery’s anticipated new novel is East West Street comes once a gripping, powerful, what life is all about anyway. nationally. Her new book is who we are, and why we audacious works illuminate Honeybee. Chronicling the real life thriller The meticulously researched The Time of Our Lives The Believer, an exploration behave as we do, for nearly history and offer critiques the coming of age of its Ratline, a mesmerising critique of our criminal posits that a rich inner life of the power of belief. In it, sixty years. In his potent of today. Chris’s fantastical transgender narrator, Sam, biography of a devoted justice system, and an is key to both and enables she listens to the “human new book, The Inner novel Mammoth is narrated the story opens with Sam husband, father and war eloquent and empathetic readers to share in Robert’s song of longing for the Self, Hugh returns to his by the fossilised remains and another despairing criminal. The story of the unattainable”, with each argument for change. sharp, expansive, witty psychology roots and turns of a 13,000 year old wise- soul standing on an life and mysterious death note in the song a story Including the accounts of exploration of his own his gaze inwards, bypassing cracking mammoth. Each overpass ready to end it of Nazi leader turned victims retraumatised by inner world. Reflecting of unshakeable and often our socially constructed of the twenty short stories all. Sam and Vic save each fugitive Otto von Wächter, their courtroom experience on time, religion, painting, unfathomable faith. identities to explore our in Laura Elvery’s collection other and their tentative the richly detailed and alongside expert opinions dancing, family and The stories are told to deeper, more private sense Ordinary Matter is inspired friendship gives them their beautifully crafted The and analysis from legal more, this is a wise and her by six extraordinary of self. He invites us to find by a Nobel Prize-winning first reason to live. Equal Ratline draws on the family practitioners including timely exploration of the individuals – including Death a path to psychological female scientist. With their archives of Otto’s son and defence counsel, rosecutors, challenges and possibilities Doulas, Ghostbusters, parts heartbreaking and freedom by answering lateral approach to history, Philippe’s friend Horst judges and academics, of ageing. Creationists and survivors heartwarming, Honeybee is to explore humanity’s Witness lays bare the flaws of domestic violence – that most challenging and these unlikely starting a deeply empathetic novel Chair: Peter Rose of our adversarial system, individuals Sarah meets, confronting of questions: points have resulted in of identity, vulnerability and capacity for love and evil, and the devastating impact follows, interrogates and Who am I, really? richly rewarding and wildly masculinity. and ask if one can imaginative outcomes. redeem the other. they can have on the seeks to understand in this Chair: Natasha Mitchell Chair: Yves Rees delivery of justice. profound and deeply Chair: Danielle Clode Chair: Rick Sarre compassionate book. Chair: Natasha Cica Chair: Rebecca Huntley LIVE Tue STREAMING 2 Mar SCHEDULE

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THE DETAILS APEIROGON THE INSIDER THE SHADOW THE RISE OF RETURN TO THE PRICE OF ON LOVE, DEATH AND KING INDEPENDENT ULURU FREE SPEECH READING LIVE STREAMED FROM NEW YORK, USA LIVE STREAMED FROM MEDIA NEW YORK, USA Peter Fray John Carty Malcolm Knox Tegan Bennett Daylight Colum McCann Christopher Pyne Maaza Mengiste Margaret Simons Mark McKenna Patrick Mullins Michael West Part memoir, part love Colum McCann’s profoundly When his father died Shortlisted for the Booker When historian Mark Do Australians extend the letter to her favourite moving masterpiece, unexpectedly at 59, Prize, The Shadow King is With over half a million McKenna set out to write right of free speech only to books and authors, Tegan Apeirogon, is based on a Christopher Pyne learned a powerful, poetic book Australians joining Kevin a history of Uluru, he had those we agree with, saying Bennett Daylight’s first true story of a friendship that life is short in the about women soldiers Rudd’s call for a Royal no idea where the story things we approve of? In collection of essays, The between “An Israeli, toughest possible way. He during the Italian-Ethiopian Commission into News would take him. Researching Truth is Trouble, Malcolm Details, evokes Blake’s against the Occupation. became a man in a hurry, and war of 1935, the first main Corp and the concentration the shooting death of an Knox documents the curious observation that one can A Palestinian, studying fought his way into Federal conflict of World War II. of media power in this Aboriginal man by policeman case of how footballer Israel see “a World in a Grain of the Holocaust.” United by Parliament at the tender age Drawing on the life of country, Australians are Bill McKinnon, Mark uncovered Folau became the centre Sand.” The detail is the the devastation of losing of 25, knifing his erstwhile Maaza’s own grandmother, increasingly turning to shocking evidence that was of our free speech debate. point, she writes. Drawing a daughter to political mentor to get there. A it tells the story of Hirut, other, more independent typical of Australian frontier Patrick Mullins’ The Trials on noted authors including violence, Bassam Aramin confidante to and tactician whose daring plan saves outlets for their news. justice, and astonishing of Portnoy, recounts the Jane Austen, George and Rami Elhanan together for multiple Prime Ministers, morale when Emperor Editor-in-Chief of veteran in its contemporary pervasive literary censorship Saunders, S. J. Perelman tell their daughters’ stories Christopher rose to become Selassie goes into exile, online newsletter Crikey! resonance. With support from of our puritanical past, and particularly Helen over and over, to anyone one of SA’s most powerful only to end up a prisoner Peter Fray, independent the families of key individuals, brought to an abrupt end Garner, Tegan skillfully that will listen, in an – and entertaining – political of one of Italy’s most brutal journalist and media analyst and the assistance of SA with Portnoy’s Complaint blends observations about attempt to bring a peaceful figures. In The Insider: The officers. A captivating Margaret Simons and Museum, Mark uncovered and Penguin’s brave writing and reading with resolution to the endless scoops, the scandals and study of female power with founder of michaelwest. critical new evidence, decision to publish and recollections from her own conflict. Colum’s radically the serious business within an indelible, inspirational com.au, business writer and Return to Uluru became be damned. Malcolm and life, from the profound to empathetic novel is infused the Canberra bubble, he heroine at its heart. Michael West discuss the a true crime story of the Patrick discuss our history the everyday, to moving, with both desperate hope writes with verve, wit and rise of independent media most explosive kind, and an of censorship and today’s Chair: Linda Jaivin inspiring and sometimes and poetic power. candour about what Annabel and what we gain – and important exploration of what fraught debate around lose – from the increased hilarious effect. Chair: Sophie Cunningham Crabb calls “a truly bonkers truth telling and reconciliation bigotry and cancel culture. period of political history.” proliferation of new media. means in practice. Chair: Geordie Williamson Supported by Culture Ireland Chair: David Marr Chair: Sally Warhaft Chair: Paul Barclay Chair: Jared Thomas LIVE Wed STREAMING 3 Mar SCHEDULE

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THE RIVER INFINITE THE PALACE TWILIGHT OF LAND OF MATES CITY SERIES:

RUNS DRY SPLENDOURS LETTERS DEMOCRACY AND FAVOURS A DOUBLE EVENT THE FAILURE OF AUSTRALIA’S CRONY Richard Beasley POLITICS AND THE CAPITALISM Matthew Condon, Sophie Cunningham, Grant Rigney PARTING OF FRIENDS Paul Daley, Delia Falconer, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Richard Denniss Margaret Simons Sofie Laguna Jenny Hocking LIVE STREAMED FROM Tess Lea, Peter Timms, David Whish-Wilson LONDON, UK Cameron Murray Marian Wilkinson The Murray-Darling Gifted youngster Lawrence Distinguished historian Anne Applebaum To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the iconic City Series Basin is dying. Despite its enjoys an idyllic childhood Jenny Hocking fought Does Australia have a and the publication of updated versions on our eight capital catastrophic plight, and in regional Victoria, where for over a decade for Pulitzer prize-winning problem with rent-seekers, cities, this special double event chaired by the infinitely the devastating findings he lives with his widowed access to correspondence author and historian Anne well-connected insiders who expert George Megalogenis examines what makes each of the South Australian mother and young between Governor General Applebaum deconstructs the have their snouts firmly in of our cities special through the eyes of authors who love Royal Commission, policy brother at the foot of the John Kerr and Buckingham psychology and motivations the public trough, enriching and know them. As we emerge from the Great Lockdowns is corrupted, neglected or Grampians. After taking Palace about the sacking of of today’s crazed conspiracy themselves and their mates of 2020, when we were forced to stay home, and individual ignored. Richard Beasley his first painting class, . Classified theorists and populists at the expense of the rest of State borders slammed shut one after the other, it seems draws on his experience he dives obsessively into by the Palace as “personal in Twilight of Democracy, us? Why is it that the majority particularly appropriate to look at the personality of each as Counsel Assisting the an exhilarating world of correspondence”, Jenny an incisive examination of of our Rich-Listers accrued capital – their skylines, cultures, architecture, and natural their wealth from favourable Royal Commission in Dead light, colour and art, and finally secured their release the longstanding struggle surrounds – and explore how they have changed over the in the Water, a book that thrives. But his world is in June 2020 following a treatment in heavily regulated last decade, and how they shape, excite, attract or infuriate between democracy and is simultaneously hilarious shattered by the arrival landmark High Court industries? The Australia their residents. dictatorship. Drawing on and deadly serious, and of an interloper, and a judgment that decreed Institute’s Chief Economist experience and high-level First we hear from Kerryn Goldsworthy (Adelaide), Sophie very, very angry. Margaret devastating incident that they were Commonwealth Richard Denniss, co-author relationships forged across Cunningham (), David Whish-Wilson (Perth) and Simons’ celebrated Quarterly follows. Sofie Laguna’s records. In her new book, of Games of Mates (with Paul Peter Timms (Hobart), and then Delia Falconer (Sydney), Essay, Cry Me A River extraordinary and The Palace Letters, Jenny Europe and America, and an Frijters), Cameron Murray and exemplary understanding Matthew Condon (Brisbane), Paul Daley (Canberra) and (QE77), is both a portrait and compassionate new book, discusses the implications Marian Wilkinson (The Carbon Tess Lea (Darwin), before all authors return to the stage for of contemporary and explanation of our current Infinite Splendours, is a of the Letters and their Club) examine the cosy club questions from the audience and each other. predicament. Grant Rigney luminous and heartbreaking release for transparency historical politics, Twilight of of political insiders and this Don’t miss this literary and cultural audit of the state of our is the Director of the Murray meditation on art, trauma, and accountability in our Democracy is a confronting particularly Australian way to cities, and their relationship to each other and the country. Lower Darling Rivers and innocence lost. democratic system, and for and illuminating analysis of make money. Indigenous Nations. Australian democracy itself. a polarised world. Chair: George Megalogenis Chair: Linda Jaivin Chair: Michael West Chair: Natasha Mitchell Chair: Mark McKenna Chair: Sally Warhaft LIVE Thu STREAMING 4 Mar SCHEDULE

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REFRAMING THERE GOES THE SHOW ME WHAT JUST WHAT HAPPENS LEADING LADY THE LONELY NEIGHBOURHOOD THE CLASSICS WHERE IT HURTS HAPPENED? NEXT? LOWITJA’S LEGACY CENTURY LIVE STREAMED FROM LIVING WITH INVISIBLE COMING TOGETHER LONDON, UK ILLNESS Danielle Celermajer Emma Dawson IN A WORLD THAT’S Chongyi Feng Gabrielle Chan Richard Denniss PULLING APART Natalie Haynes Geoff Raby Kylie Maslen Richard McGregor Gideon Haigh Stuart Rintoul LIVE STREAMED FROM LONDON, UK With her acclaimed Insults flying via Twitter, Shortlisted for this year’s It began with Australia ablaze Even before we emerged Described by Noel Pearson BBC radio series just lobsters dying on the Victorian Premier’s Literary and ended with a scramble blinking from Iso and as “the most outstanding Noreena Hertz commissioned for a seventh tarmac in Shanghai, Awards, Kylie Maslen’s to avoid the latest cluster the year that was 2020, Aboriginal leader of the series, broadcaster, author, Ministers’ phone calls Show Me Where It Hurts of the clusterf*** that was we started to ask, “What contemporary era”, Lowitja Described by The Observer stand up comedian and snubbed by their explores the impact of COVID-19. In between were Happens Next?”. Executive O’Donoghue navigated an as one of the “world’s classicist Natalie Haynes counterparts: how has our chronic illness on the floods, flailing democracies, Director of Per Capita early life of loss, racism leading thinkers”, global is celebrated for taking relationship with China lives of sufferers, and is dodged accountabilities, Emma Dawson co-edited and servitude to become economist Noreena Hertz those pillars of our cultural come to this? Former marked by its eloquence, and a weird fugue that an anthology with this the first Chair of Australia’s dissects the contemporary understanding, the Greek Australian Ambassador to candour and generosity. swallowed April – July. It’s title, exploring how we can best attempt to facilitate epidemic of loneliness in myths, and retelling them China Geoff Raby explores Drawing on her own life and no wonder we emerged ensure we learn the right self-determination for its The Lonely Century. This from the female perspective. China’s newly assertive illness, Kylie documents from 2020 wondering: lessons from the COVID Indigenous peoples, ATSIC. meticulously researched Her novel, A Thousand place in the world and the the experience of living “What just happened?”. crisis. She is joined by Chief She was a lead negotiator on and highly readable book Ships, centres Creusa’s implications for Australia with pain with humour Sophie Cunningham’s Fire Economist of the Australia the Native Title Act with Paul describes how we have experience of the Trojan in his new book, China’s and courage, detailing Flood Plague pondered Institute Richard Denniss Keating, who later called her become alienated from War and in her most recent Grand Strategy and its impact across such just that. She facilitates and Gideon Haigh, whose a “leader with an unfailing each other, and analyses book, the eloquent and witty Australia’s Future in the areas as housing, dating a conversation with book, The Momentous, instinct for enlargement”. the structures, influences essay collection Pandora’s New Global Order. He is and work, and building her contributors Richard Uneventful Day: a requiem Stuart Rintoul’s impressive, and trends that cause and Jar, Natalie “gives voice joined by Chongyi Feng to readers’ understanding McGregor and Gabrielle for the office looks at the authorised biography of this exacerbate our isolation. to the women, girls and discuss what – if anything through pop cultural Chan, joined by Danielle implications 2020’s flight important Australian leader The Lonely Century is an goddesses who, for so – can be done to repair this references ranging from Celermajer, whose essay from the office has had on is informed by meticulous urgent message about one long, have been silent.” critical geopolitical and Frida Kahlo to Sally collection Summertime: our working lives. research and a strong of the most far-reaching economic relationship. Rooney to Sponge Bob Reflections on a vanishing personal relationship with issues of our time. Chair: Tom Wright Chair: Paul Barclay Squarepants. future is an an urgent elegy his subject. Chair: Richard McGregor Chair: Natasha Cica for looming loss. Chair: Jane Howard Chair: Simone Tur Chair: Sophie Cunningham