Canada and New Zealand began signing treaties with their respective First Nations people centuries ago. Why is Australia so far behind? Treaty offers an opportunity for everyone who calls Victoria ...

Award-winning journalist Cheng Lei shares her powerful story of wrongful imprisonment and survival, in conversation with James Scullin. In 2020, Cheng Lei was working as a business reporter for ...

Introduce your children to the magic of live music with Orchestra Victoria! The water in the Yaba River is low, the country is in a drought, the waterbirds are hungry. Bila the Spoonbill knows he must ...

Jana Wendt unveils her debut work of fiction – a keenly drawn collection of short stories that go to the heart of the human condition. After decades away from the spotlight, beloved Gold Logie-winning ...

The 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards are proudly supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund and Creative Victoria.

As part of The Wheeler Centre's Hot Desk Fellowship program, Chris Ames worked on his manuscript of short stories, I Made This Just for You. In this piece, 'Balloonfest '86', we see a fictional take ...

At this exclusive Melbourne event, best-selling novelist Bonnie Garmus discusses her captivating debut, Lessons in Chemistry. A runaway favourite of book clubs the world over, Bonnie Garmus’s debut ...

Evelyn Araluen, Hasib Hourani and Mykaela Saunders discuss the careful craft of shaping a language unsettled. Trace the contours of language, seek out its limits and push. Histories are cut up, struck ...

How do we hold structures of power accountable? And what happens when justice fails the very people it’s supposed to help? Three significant voices come together to discuss the social, political and ...

Watch journalist and legal reporter Lucia Osborne-Crowley share a rare insight into the blockbuster trial of Ghislaine Maxwell with host Louise Milligan. Lucia Osborne-Crowley was one of only four ...

The Wheeler Centre acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the Centre stands. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all ...