2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Marian Wilkinson
Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist with a career that has spanned radio, television, online and print. She has covered politics, national security, refugee issues and climate change as well as serving as a foreign correspondent in Washington DC for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She was a Deputy Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, Executive Producer of the ABC’s Four Corners program and a senior reporter with Four Corners.
She is the author of several books. Her latest work is the Quarterly Essay, Woodside Vs. the Planet, analysing Australia’s gas industry and its battles with the climate movement.
When Did Climate Change Politics Become Unsexy?
Bob Brown, Tom McIlroy and Marian Wilkinson with Jo Dyer
Our esteemed panel - former Greens leader Bob Brown, Guardian political editor Tom McIlroy and Walkley Award-winning journalist Marian Wilkinson - discuss.
When The Cover-Up Is Worse Than The Crime: Journalism 101
John Silvester, Kate Wild and Marian Wilkinson with Madeleine Grummet
Drinks With The Journos / The Evening Feed
Geraldine Brooks, Jennifer Byrne, Annabel Crabb and Marian Wilkinson with Tom Wright
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Big Business, Dodgy Dealings
Chris Kohler and Marian Wilkinson with Daniel Ziffer
Panel member Chris Kohler’s new book How They Get You: Sneaky Everyday Economics and Smart Ways to Hold on to Your Money is the catalyst for a conversation with investigative journalist Marian Wilkinson about businesses that behave badly - and what communities can do to fight back.