Featured events
Julia Busuttil Nishimura on Ostro
Readings Carlton — 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053
As an Australian of Maltese descent and a fluent Italian speaker, married to a Japanese man, Julia Busuttil Nishimura and her food represent everything that is good about modern Australian eating.
Come along to hear Nishimura chat about her culinar…
A bookshop gig with Charles Jenkins
Readings St Kilda — 112 Acland St, St Kilda, Victoria, 3182
Join us for an intimate solo performance by Charles Jenkins, who will be playing stripped-back versions of songs from the new Charles Jenkins and the Zhivagos album, The Last Polaroid.
Free, but please book here.
Benjamin Law in conversation with Jason Ball
Church of All Nations, 180 Palmerston Street, Carlton
In 2016, the Safe Schools program became the centre of an ideological firestorm. In the latest Quarterly Essay, the much-loved Benjamin Law explores how and why this happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping account of schools today, sexuality, teenage…
Gareth Evans in conversation with George Megalogenis
Readings Hawthorn — 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Gareth Evans’ highly anticipated follow-up to Cabinet Diaries, Incorrigible Optimist is a sometimes moving, often entertaining, and always lucid memoir of Evans’ decades in the public eye.
George Megalogenis will ask why, despite multiple disappoin…
