The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas: Videos

Casey Bennetto's Song from the Victorian Premier's Literary Award

In the September Quarterly Essay, Hugh White considers Australia’s place between Beijing and Washington.

Stephen Mayne argues that feminism has failed in the Intelligence Squared debate

Virginia Hausegger argues that feminism has failed in the Intelligence Squared debate

Jennifer Byrne argues that feminism has not failed in the Intelligence Squared debate

Author of Boy In The Moon, Ian Brown, discusses non-verbal communication, his vision for an integrated high care community, and what it takes to rediscover your own needs after focussing completely on another's.

Nicholas Carr discusses brain function, intellect and memory in the era of information bombardment.

Anna Krien, author of *In the Woods*, audits the deathbed health of our newspapers, lobbying for a diagnosis that doesn’t shy away from tough love.

Fiona Scott-Norman, satirist and DJ, argues that street violence can be solved not by sending in the cops, but by sending in the disco police.

In this Meanland lecture, Cory Doctorow discusses how writers can seize the possibilities of the digital future.

Critical Failure's visual arts session looks at the state of visual art from the decline of newspapers, the rise of online and the place of the artist in the current space.

Rebecca Starford, Gideon Haigh, Peter Craven and Hilary McPhee examine the challenges of quality Australian literary criticism.

An energetic debate on stage criticism in Australia, featuring Alison Croggon, Julian Meyrick, Stephen Sewell and Cameron Woodhead.

Adrian Martin, Mel Campbell, Fenella Kernebone and Gillian Armstrong interrogate the role and manner of the film critic in contemporary Australia.

Tanveer Ahmed argues in the Intelligence Squared debate that Australia has escaped its racist past