2026 Festival

Speaker Profile

Stephen Lunn

Stephen Lunn is The Australian’s Social Affairs Editor, covering issues including health, wellbeing, ageing, disability and the care economy. A journalist for more than two decades, he has also worked in public policy advocacy in the private sector, and practised as a lawyer in Australia and the UK. Stephen has a Masters degree in law from the London School of Economics. 

Anxiety And The Modern Workplace: How IT, AI, WFH and DEI are impacting life in the office

Saturday April 25
Ellen Grant Hall
1.00pm / 60 mins

Sean Scalmer, Sarah Wilson and Toby Walsh with Stephen Lunn

Basket Case Or World’s Most Liveable? Five years after Lockdown, how is Melbourne?

Sunday April 26
The Ballroom, The Continental
3.00pm / 60 mins

Kylie Soanes, The Paris End Editors and Nicholas Reese with Stephen Lunn  

Melbourne-bashing became fashionable during the first lockdown in March, 2020. Why is it taking so long for the city to sparkle again?