The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas: Videos

Greens candidate Adam Bandt examines the role of smaller parties and independent candidates in a healthy, accountable democracy.

Hanifa Deen: Australia Has Not Escaped Its Racist Past

Father Bob Maguire on community, religion as revolution and time.

John Birmingham discusses After America, women as action heroines and the battle between reading and Nintendo.

ABR Calibre Prize winner David Hansen discusses his winning essay 'Seeing Truganini' with indigenous curators Brenda L Croft and Tony Brown.

Hannie Rayson, Lorin Clarke, Kate Holden, Craig Sherborne and Steven Carroll examine the mechanics of representational romance, as they talk literary heartthrobs.

Our Night of Erotic Fan Fiction got a little racey and Knight Rider got the Justin Heazlewood treatment

Celebrating the life of Anton Chekhov with writers, actors and directors.

Rodney Croome's impassioned argument for gay marriage touches on parenting, Gillard's failure of empathy and inclusive national identity.

Ken Crispin examines the mechanics of law and justice in our legal system, and questions Australia's lack of a bill of rights.

Peter Carey on writing, art and his latest book Parrot and Olivier in America.

Genevieve Picot, Peter Rose, Gig Ryan, Craig Sherborne and Chris Wallace-Crabbe share readings and recollections of poet and critic Peter Porter.

Angela Pippos leads our panel including Lisa Forrest, Gerard Whateley and Joel Bowden in a discussion about ethical behaviour - and reporting - in the sporting world.

Monica Dux grapples expectations of radiance during her pregnancies and asks: what’s with the contemporary push for pregnant women to be so damn happy?

Chris Meade and Paul Callaghan discuss their experiments - and discoveries - around the intersection of literature and interactive media.