2026 Festival

Speaker Profile

Virginia Haussegger

Virginia Haussegger AM is an award-winning journalist and gender equity advocate. With a four-decade media career across public and commercial broadcasting, she anchored ABC TV News Canberra for 15 years and reported globally for Channel 7 and Ch 9. She writes for major Australian outlets, her latest book Unfinished Revoluton: The Feminist Fightback is described as a “clarion call” and “contemporary history at its best’.  She was 2019 ACT Australian of the Year.  

Is Australia Unravelling?

Saturday April 25
Portsea Surf Life Saving Club
4.00pm / 60 mins

Virginia Haussegger, Rana Hussain, Ruby Kraner-Tucci with Virginia Trioli 

The Revolution Continues: Still fighting for rights in Australia

Sunday April 26
Sorrento Bowls Club
9.00am / 60 mins

Dennis Altman, Virginia Haussegger and Thomas Mayo with Julianne Schultz