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Meet the author- John Safran
John Safran was in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on his new book Squat, in which he recounts his time squatting in a Hollywood celebrity’s abandoned mansion..With the celebrity’s promotion of Hitler as a kick-off point, Safran explores threads of Jewishness, identity and belonging – topics that couldn’t hit closer to home.
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Meet the author- Benjamin Stevenson
Benjamin Stevenson was in conversation with Jack Heath on his new novel Everyone this Christmas has a Secret, a Christmas addition to his bestselling Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe...
Meet the author- Paolo Giordano
Best-selling Italian author Paolo Giordano was in conversation with Marco Lazzarino on his semi-autobiographical novel Tasmania, which captures the fear, anxiety, wonder, and beauty of this time of uncertainty and upheaval, exploring how we can create and maintain relationships with other people when it feels increasingly difficult to connect.
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Meet the author- Shaun Micallef
Shaun Micallef was in conversation with Andrew Leigh on his new book Slivers, Shards and Skerricks. “A one-man anthology by one of Australia's most intelligent and more handsome Renaissance men.”
This indefinitive collection brings together under one cover the very best comic writing – parody, poetry, prose, plays, philosophy and political treatise – by Australia's greatest living television host. From 'I Was Scott Morrison's Schnoodle' and 'Around the World in One Pair of Underpants' to the deliciously decadent recipe for 'Satyricon Su'rprise', Shaun Micallef ‘s sublime anthology has it all.
Meet the author- Andrew Leigh
Andrew Leigh was in conversation with Lin Hatfield Dodds on his new book Battlers and Billionaires: The Updated Story of Inequality in Australia.
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1820s. The housing and cost-of-living crises we face are some of the defining issues of our time.
Meet the author- Gina Chick
Gina Chick was in conversation with Kate Grarock on her memoir We Are the Stars, a misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go.
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Meet the author- Dr Karl
Dr Karl was discussing his memoir A Periodic Tale: My Sciencey Memoir, supplemented by audiovisual images of his remarkable life.
How did a shy Polish immigrant kid - Karl Sven Woytek Sas Konkovitch Matthew Kruszelnicki - evolve into the fabulously eccentric Dr Karl? The only child of Holocaust survivors who fled to Australia in 1950, Karl has always forged his own destiny in an idiosyncratic way. Before he became one of the world's favourite scientific storytellers, he ambled through a convoluted cacophony of a career.
Meet the author- Virginia Trioli
Virginia Trioli was in conversation with Allan Behm discussing her new book A Bit on the Side: Reflections on What Makes Life Delicious.
Virginia Trioli knows that enduring joy is often found not in the big moments but in the small. And as a dedicated, almost obsessive, foodie, she believes that food gives us the perfect metaphor for how to devour the real flavour of life. When the main course is unappetising, the 'bits on the side' make life really delicious. The sweet and the sour; the salty, the bitter - our small, meaningful selections are the ones that make life glorious.
Meet the author- Don Watson
Don Watson will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on his quarterly essay High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the brink, in which Don offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other.
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Meet the author- Rebecca Huntley
Rebecca Huntley was in conversation with Karen Middleton on Rebecca's new book Sassafras. A Memoir of Love, Loss and MDMA Therapy. Rebecca Huntley didn’t know what ailed her, but she knew it was embedded deep within her mind – and her past. Sassafras is the utterly compelling story of her quest to overcome intergenerational trauma and trauma in her own life.When you’ve experienced trauma and conventional treatments have failed, where do you turn?
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Meet the author - Kevin bell
The Hon. Kevin Bell, following introductory remarks by Dr. Liz Allen, was in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on his new book Housing .The Great Australian Right, which reimagines ‘the great Australian dream’ of housing as ‘the great Australian right’ to housing
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Meet the author Darren Rix And Craig Cormick
Following a welcome to country by Ngunnawal elder Aunty Violet Sheridan, Darren Rix and Craig Cormick’s new book Warra Warra Wai How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People, was launched by Karen Mundine, CEO of Reconciliation Australia.
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Meet the author - Nina Jankowicz and Van Badham
Nina Jankowicz, American disinformation expert and author of How to Lose the Information War and How to Be a Woman Online, and Van Badham, activist, playwright, and author of QAnon and On, were in conversation with Andrew Leigh to discuss disinformation, online harms, and their effect on elections in 2024 and beyond.
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Meet the author - Catherine Fox
Catherine Fox was in conversation with Michelle Ryan on her new book Breaking the Boss Bias How to get more women into leadership.
Despite the surge of women into university, jobs and sitting in federal parliament, why are men still overwhelmingly running the show? Fewer women are running governments, and the small proportion who make it as CEO has barely budged. The major culprit is right under our noses. Entrenched gender bias about who should be the boss means leadership is mainly seen as a masculine endeavour. And no matter how well qualified and experienced, women continue to be underestimated and face an obstacle course of sexism to get to the decision-making table.
Meet the author- Hayley Scrivenor
Best-selling author of Dirt Town, Hayley Scrivenor was in conversation with Chris Hammer on her second novel Girl Falling.
Why would my best friend want to destroy my life? Finn and her best friend, Daphne, have grown up together in the Blue Mountains. Bonded by both having lost a younger sister to suicide, they've always had a close - sometimes too close - friendship. Now in their twenties, their lives have finally started to diverge: Daphne is at university and Finn is working in the Mountains, as well as falling in love with a beautiful newcomer called Magdu.
Meet the author Norman Swann
Norman Swan was in conversation with Laura Tingle on his new book, So You Want to Know What's Good for Your Kids?, the ultimate parenting guide on what matters from birth to ten.
We all want our kids to grow into happy, healthy adults and the first ten years count more than any other time in our lives. So what should we be doing to give them the best chance? Most books on childhood stop at age five and start again in adolescence. They miss the critical primary school age years leading to adolescence - the years that make all the difference.
Meet the author - Andrew Ford
Award-winning broadcaster and composer, Andrew Ford, was in conversation with Malcolm Gillies on his new book The Shortest History of Music, an entertaining and thought-provoking trip through the fascinating history of music.
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MTA Paul Ham
Critically acclaimed historian, Paul Ham, was in discussion with Hugh Mackay on his new book The Soul A History of the Human Mind , from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable belief in the great religions and political systems. Paul Ham embarks on a journey that has never been attempted: to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul/mind have animated and driven the history of humankind.
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Meet the author - Leigh Boucher And Michelle Arrow
Leigh Boucher and Michelle Arrow were in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on their book, with Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds, Personal Politics Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, an insightful examination of the collective and cumulative impact gender and sexuality activism has had on citizenship in Australia.
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Meet The Author- Cassandra Pybus
Cassandra Pybus was in conversation with Mark McKenna on her new bookVery Secret Trade. The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania. She has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian colonial history.
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