2026 Festival

Speaker Profile

Ruby Kraner-Tucci

Ruby Kraner-Tucci is the national health reporter for News Corp Australia. Ruby began her career in community news, working as deputy editor of The Jewish Independent and reporting on the charity sector for Pro Bono News. An award-winning journalist, Ruby’s writing has appeared in The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Broadsheet and Time Out, among others, and her personal essay was published in the anthology, Ruptured. Ruby is passionate about writing human-cantered stories relating to mental health, neurodivergence, wellbeing, multiculturalism and relationships. 

Social Media: Force For Good Or Engine Of Division

Friday April 24
The Ballroom, The Continental
10.30am / 60 mins

Richard King, Ruby Kraner-Tucci, Clare Stephens and Thomas Mayo with Laura Macdonald

Via our phones and laptops, we can alienate, divide, polarise and cancel out. We can also bring people together, build social and political activism,  and amplify marginalised voices. Our panel discusses. 


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