Joe is a longstanding LGBTIQA+ activist and CEO of Switchboard Victoria. Switchboard runs Australia’s only LGBTIQA+ dedicated family violence prevention helpline, the Rainbow Door. Joe believes in ...

The Wheeler Centre exists to support writers, readers and thinkers. Through live and digital conversations, debates, readings, performances and discussions, it deepens public engagement with the most ...

The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships are back for 2025 – this year made possible by the generous support of the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, the Readings Foundation and the Just ...

George R.R. Martin is the author of 14 novels, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the acclaimed HBO series Game of Thrones. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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The State Library of Victoria is accessible by Swanston Street trams, and is a short walk from Melbourne Central Station. Parking is available across the road at QV, or in two-hour spaces on the ...

Caro Llewellyn is CEO of the Wheeler Centre and the author of four works of non-fiction including the 2020 Stella Prize shortlisted memoir, Diving into Glass, which is about her father’s polio and her ...

Jane is Senior Research Curator at Mona. She joined Mona – Australia’s largest private museum – in 2007 during the initial planning phase, having been Curator of Major Special Exhibitions in both ...

Noah Riseman is an Associate Professor in History at the Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Serving in Silence? Australian LGBT Servicemen and Women (2018) and is the Chief ...

‘The absolute strength and pride of who I am today comes from these strong and resilient arweet murni-gurrk (old wise women).’ Caroline Martin is a direct descendant of the Briggs family and Custodian ...

In 2017, Aretha Brown delivered an impassioned speech at the Invasion Day Rally in Melbourne, fighting to make Indigenous history education mainstream. Her delivery and ideas led her to be elected as ...

Jason Ball is a social entrepreneur and LGBTIQ advocate best known for his work tackling homophobia in the AFL. Jason's story was the inspiration behind the AFL's Pride Game between St Kilda and ...