Adelaide Writers' Week

AWW22 The Mother Wound - Amani Haydar

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Lur Alghurabi. The first time Amani’s father hit her mother, his wife of twenty-eight years, was the day he killed her. Amani brings a la...

AWW22 My Body Keeps Your Secrets - Lucia Osborne-Crowley

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Smriti Daniel “Despite our best efforts,” writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley, “the body finds a way to express what the mind cannot.” The...

AWW22 The Shape of Sound - Fiona Murphy

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Jane Howard. “Deaf people feel and see sound: the entire body becomes a receptor,” writes Fiona Murphy in The Shape of Sound. She kept ...

AWW22 Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience - Veronica Gorrie

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Tali Lavi. Kurnai woman Veronica Gorrie grew up with a fear of the police. So she joined the force. In the first half of her powerful memoi...

AWW22 Beyond Boyhood - Brandon Jack and Paul Kennedy

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Tory Shepherd. ABC journalist Paul Kennedy and former Sydney Swans player Brandon Jack were forced to challenge and transcend their own exp...

AWW22 Son of Sin - Omar Sakr

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Geordie Williamson. Omar Sakr is an acclaimed Arab-Australian poet and author. His most recent collection, The Lost Arabs, won the 2020 Pri...

AWW22 The MUD Literary Club: The 10th Anniversary

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With Thomas Keneally, Hannah Kent and Christos Tsiolkas. Chaired by David Sly. Established by passionate readers to support the Ubud Writers & Rea...

AWW22 This is Australia - Claire G. Coleman and Julianne Schultz

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Kerry O'Brien. Two deep thinkers and fine writers turn their minds to contemporary Australia. In Lies, Damned Lies: A Personal Exploration ...

AWW22 Live Podcast: Archive Fever

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hosted by Yves Rees & Clare Wright with guests John Carty & Jared Thomas. In a special live recording of the peak-nerd podcast Archive Fever, ...

AWW22 The Centred Victim - Jacqueline Bublitz and Laura Elizabeth Woollett

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Angela Savage. Turning the crime genre on its head, Jacqueline Bublitz’s Before You Knew My Name and Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s The New...

AWW22 Wild Motherhood - Briohny Doyle and Rachel Yoder

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Tali Lavi. Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch is one of the wildest debuts of the year, a feral, often hilarious take on the impact of new motherh...

AWW22 Theatre, Leadership and the Imagination - John Bell and Jonathan Biggins

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Tom Wright. John Bell and Jonathan Biggins have spent their lives on the stage. John is our foremost interpreter of Shakespeare. He documen...

AWW22 All About Yves: Notes from a Transition - Yves Rees

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Jennifer Mills. In this remarkable memoir, historian and author Yves Rees invites readers into their experience of coming out as trans. At ...

AF22 Bet the Farm - Gabrielle Chan and Anika Molesworth

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Natasha Mitchell As we stand at a crossroads crowded with interconnected issues for our planet’s future – climate change, energy, soil,...

AWW22 Continuous Creation: The Poetry of Les Murray - Peter Carroll

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Performed by Peter Carroll / Introduced by Peter Goldsworthy The late Les Murray was our unofficial poet laureate – irascible, generous, thoughtful,...

AWW22 Australia's War on Whistleblowers - Bernard Collaery, David McBride and Jennifer Robinson

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Andrew Fowler Australia's recent treatment of high-profile whistleblowers has been shockingly punitive. Three lawyers speak from intimate e...

AWW22 The Luminous Solution - Charlotte Wood

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Kerryn Goldsworthy In her latest book, The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life, Charlotte Wood shares the insights...

AWW22 Compounding Damage - Michael Bradley, Rachel Doyle, Saxon Mullins

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Louise Milligan Events of the last year have brought a renewed and urgent focus on the experiences of women seeking redress after experienc...

AWW22 Growing Up in Australia - Anita Heiss, Benjamin Law and Fiona Murphy

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Anton Enus In 2008, Black Inc published Growing Up Asian in Australia, a collection of stories from Asian Australians about what it was lik...

AWW22 The Artful Dickens - John Mullan

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Linda Jaivin “What is so good about Dickens’ novels?” asks John Mullan – and then proceeds to answer in thirteen essays of exquisit...

AWW22 Living Gender: Reimagining Masculinities and Femininities - Yves Rees, Omar Sakr and Brandon Jack

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Twilight Talks | Authorial Voice Hosted by Benjamin Law. Join Australia’s favourite raconteur Ben Law for our rescheduled Twilight Talks, now on the...

AWW22 There's Something About China - David Brophy and Jason Yat-Sen Li

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Linda Jaivin. David Brophy’s China Panic: Australia’s Alternative to Panic and Pandering is a nuanced and insightful analysis of the de...

AWW22 City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong - Antony Dapiran

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Benjamin Law. In his detailed account of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong, long-term Hong Kong r...

AWW22 Reporting China - Bill Birtles, Trevor Watson and Sue-Lin Wong

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In conversation with Melissa Roberts. When correspondents Bill Birtles and Michael Smith abruptly left China in September 2020 after late night visits...

AWW22 The Shortest History of China - Linda Jaivin

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Jacqueline Lo. One of Australia’s foremost sinologists distils the sprawling history of China into a pacey, readable account of its origi...

AWW22 Blight Street - Geoff Goodfellow, Roslyn Oades and Nic Darrigo

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Poetry in Performance.  Geoff Goodfellow returns to Writers’ Week with a reading of his new verse novella, Blight Street, featuring Geoff and p...

AWW22 Holding the Hose - Richard Flanagan

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Kerry O'Brien Richard Flanagan returns to Writers’ Week for a wide-ranging discussion with Kerry O’Brien. Drawing on his journalism of ...

AWW22 The Big Switch - Saul Griffith

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Sally Warhaft NSW Treasurer Matt Keane describes Australian and Biden climate and energy adviser Saul Griffith as having “a brain the siz...

AWW22 Words from the Wise - Peter Doherty and Barry Jones

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Rick Sarre Two of Australia’s most distinguished thinkers join forces in this unmissable conversation. With combined life experience of m...

AWW22 Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World - Elle Hardy

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Meredith Lake Little more than 100 years old, Pentecostalism currently has 600 million followers worldwide and is on track to have 1 in 10 ...

AWW22 Our Nation's Shame - Samantha Crompvoets and Mark Willacy

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Sharon Davis On 19 November, 2020, the Chief of the Australian Defence Force stood in front of our nation and apologised to another: “To...

AWW22 Remembering Shane Warne - Malcolm Knox and Bharat Sundaresan

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Nick Ryan Following the shocking news of Shane Warne’s untimely death overnight on Friday, a session to remember Shane's oversized talent...

AWW22 C+NTO and Othered Poems - Joelle Taylor

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Jennifer Mills A welcome discovery for many at the 2019 Adelaide Writers’ Week, British powerhouse poet and performer Joelle Taylor retur...

AWW22 The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Michael Williams. In best-selling author Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees, star-crossed lovers Greek Christian Kostas and Turkis...

AWW22 This Campus Life - Diana Reid and Indyana Schneider

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Victoria Purman. The transformative excitement of university life has been little mined by Australian fiction. In their immensely readable ...

AWW22 The Boys' Club - Michael Warner

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Tom Wright. AFL is one of Australia’s most popular sports and the only one we can claim as indigenous. According to The Boys’ Club, a j...

AWW22 Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Ben Brooker. Patrick Radden Keefe’s remarkable Say Nothing documented the Troubles in Northern Ireland and was named by The New York Time...

AWW22 Bodies of Light - Jennifer Down

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Cath Kenneally. Holly lives a simple life in America when a Facebook message from across the seas and decades brings her past hurtling back...

AWW22 Legally Bound: Change, Activism and the Law - David Barnden, Michael Bradley and Terri Janke

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Paul Barclay. Three high profile lawyers discuss how they use their legal practice to advance important causes. David Barnden represented t...

AWW22 Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Geordie Williamson. Charlotte McConaghy’s follow-up to her intense and acclaimed The Last Migration is Once There Were Wolves. Biologist ...

AWW22 The Master of Two Worlds - John Flanagan

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Coming to Writers' Week for the first time, John Flanagan is primed to meet the legions of fans of his Ranger’s Apprentice and Brotherband adventure...

AWW22 History's Inspiration - Katrina Nannestad

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by historical events, Katrina Nannestad’s We Are Wolves and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief are stories where children are the innocent victi...

AWW22 Being Black 'N Chicken, & Chips - Matt Okine

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Comedian Matt Okine’s debut novel, Being Black ‘n Chicken, & Chips, burst onto the scene with an hilarious and often heartbreaking story about...

AWW22 The Darkness Within - Lyndall Clipstone and CS Pacat

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join bestselling YA fantasy author CS Pacat (the Fence series) debut author Lyndall Clipstone (Lakesedge) as they discuss YA fantasy and the driv...

AWW22 Hear Me Roar!

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Poetry in Performance Writers’ Week’s favourite showcase of slam poetry and spoken word performance returns to the Plane Tree Stage on Sunday feat...

AWW22 Heroes, Rebels and Innovators - Karen Wyld

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

SA author Karen Wyld will offer insights into the early resistance fighters, collaborators, inventors and dreamers featured in her middle grade book H...

AWW22 YA Microstory Competition

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Writers' Week Microstory Competition is on again in 2022! Supported by 9News, this competition invites young people aged under 18 to subm...

AWW22 The Listies Live

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a special one-off event, Australia’s favourite kids comedy duo The Listies (ABC TV’s The Listies Work For Peanuts) are coming to Adelaide Write...

AWW22 Introducing Hometown Haunts - Sarah Epstein, Poppy Nwosu, Jared Thomas and Vikki Wakefield

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hometown Haunts is a #LoveOzYa homegrown horror anthology featuring some of SA’s finest authors. Join editor and contributing author Poppy Nwosu in ...

AWW22 Scott Morrison: Who the Bloody Hell is He? - Sean Kelly and Annika Smethurst

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Annabel Crabb Sean Kelly describes The Game, his illuminating and deliciously readable take on Prime Minister Scott Morrison, as something ...

AWW22 Apples Never Fall - Liane Moriarty

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Collette Snowden Liane Moriarty is one of Australia’s most successful authors. Her books have sold over twenty million copies worldwide, ...

AWW22 Deadly Quiet City - Murong Xuecun

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Clive Hamilton In January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total lockdown, leaving its residents anxious and afraid, struggling to find medicine, ...

AWW22 How Fast Things Fall - Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Jo Dyer Since leaving office, former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull have definitely and determinedly not gone gentle into ...

AWW22 Well Hello - Annabel Crabb and Miranda Murphy

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Natasha Cica When Annabel Crabb and bestie Leigh Sales started a little podcast in 2014, they never imagined the cult following they would ...

AWW22 Scary Monsters - Michelle de Kretser

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Cath Kenneally. Dual Miles Franklin Award-winner Michelle de Kretser’s Scary Monsters tells the stories of two immigrant Australians, bot...

AWW22 Cometh the Virus, Cometh the Man - Norman Swan

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by David Sly Well-known to listeners of ABC RN’s The Health Report, Norman Swan’s clear commentary and advice on COVID-19 elevated him to ...

AWW22 The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are presented every two years during Adelaide Writers’ Week. Introduced in 1986 by the Government of Sou...

AWW22 Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams - Anita Heiss

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Jared Thomas. Hugely popular and award-winning author Anita Heiss’s new novel opens with a fictionalised account of 1852’s Gundagai flo...

AWW22 Writing Art - Angela O'Keeffe and Claire Thomas

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Kate Mildenhall. Two of 2021’s most innovative and engrossing books have works of art at their heart. Claire Thomas’s The Performance i...

AWW22 QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults - Van Badham

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Sharon Davis. In this compelling account of contemporary conspiracies, the internet’s dark corners, and those who inhabit both, Van Badha...

AWW22 Comrades in Words - Christos Tsiolkas and Charlotte Wood

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Nicole Abadee. Charlotte Wood and Christos Tsiolkas are two of our most acclaimed and best loved authors, rigorous, generous, and excavator...

AWW22 Up Close and Different - Clem Bastow and Emma Jane

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Jane Howard. In her warm and witty memoir, Late Bloomer, Clem Bastow writes how her life was transformed after she was diagnosed with autis...

AWW22 Animal - Lisa Taddeo

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Kate Mildenhall. Catapulted to literary stardom with her non-fiction bestseller Three Women, acclaimed for its radical candour in discussin...

AWW22 The Airways - Jennifer Mills

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Chaired by Sophie Cunningham. Jennifer Mills follows up her Miles Franklin-shortlisted Dyschronia with the arresting The Airways, a story of memory, r...

AWW22 My Favourite Story - Kevin Rudd

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.

AWW22 Skywhales: Every Heart Sings - Patricia Piccinini

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.

AWW22 My Favourite Story - Mem Fox

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.

AWW22 Remy Lai

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.

AWW22 Story Trove: Littlelight - Kelly Canby

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program

AWW22 Felice Arena

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program.

AWW22 Story Trove: Tomorrow is a Brand New Day - Davina Bell & Alison Colpoys

05 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Writers' Week session is part of our Kids' Day program

AWW22 Kids' Day Introduction

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This Writers' Week session is a part of our Kids' Day program.

AWW21 In Conversation with Vikki Wakefield

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When Vikki Wakefield’s This is How We Change the Ending won the 2020 CBCA’s Award for Book of the Year: Older Readers, it cemented her reputation ...

AWW21 Honeybee - Craig Silvey

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After the blockbuster success of Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey’s highly anticipated new novel is Honeybee. Chronicling the coming of age of its transge...

AWW21 The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart - Noreena Hertz

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Described by The Observer as one of the “world’s leading thinkers”, global economist Noreena Hertz dissects the contemporary epidemic of lonelin...

AWW21 Twilight of Democracy - Anne Applebaum

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pulitzer prize-winning author and historian Anne Applebaum deconstructs the psychology and motivations of today’s crazed conspiracy theorists and po...

AWW21 The Price of Free Speech - Malcolm Knox and Patrick Mullins

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do Australians extend the right of free speech only to those we agree with, saying things we approve of? In Truth is Trouble: The Strange Case of Isra...

AWW21 What Just Happened? - Danielle Celermajer, Gabrielle Chan and Richard McGregor

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It began with Australia ablaze and ended with a scramble to avoid the latest cluster of the clusterf*** that was COVID-19. In between were floods, fla...

AWW21 Return to Uluru - John Carty, Marcia Langton and Mark McKenna

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When historian Mark McKenna set out to write a history of Uluru, he had no idea where the story would take him. Researching the shooting death of an A...

AWW21 The Business of Being a Writer - Your Book and Your Brand

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When should you start to think about your author brand? How are you going to promote your message and when should you connect with your audience? Feat...

AWW21 The Details: On Love, Death and Reading - Tegan Bennett Daylight

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part memoir, part love letter to her favourite books and authors, Tegan Bennett Daylight’s first collection of essays, The Details: On Love, Death a...

AWW21 The Carbon Club - Marian Wilkinson

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why is it that, despite overwhelming popular support for action on Climate Change, Australia has been a policy laggard in this area? One of Australia’...

AWW21 The Future is Now - William Gibson

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The man who invented “cyberspace”, William Gibson is one of the most influential writers of our time. From his groundbreaking debut novel Neuroman...

AWW21 The Dragons and the Snakes - David Kilcullen

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen is Australia’s most influential contemporary military strategist. A former adviser to General Petraeus and former US...

AWW21 The Business of Being a Writer - Self-Publishing: Viable or Vanity?

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When should you choose self-publication over publication? What does a self-publishing writer need to know about production, printing, design, promotio...

AWW21 The Golden Maze - Richard Fidler

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Richard Fidler’s love letter to the city of Prague, The Golden Maze: A Biography of Prague, he describes it as a city “written in pencil, erase...

AWW21 The Meaning of Money - Royce Kurmelovs and Rick Morton

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Royce Kurmelovs’ finances were shredded when, uninsured, he hit another car. Rick Morton grew up in poverty, a household that struggled to afford bi...

AWW21 The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Emily St. John Mandel’s exquisite new novel tells of the porous boundaries between past and present, rich and poor, living and dead. The Glass Hotel...

AWW21 The Inner Self: The Joy of Discovering Who We Really Are - Hugh Mackay

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hugh Mackay has made a lifelong study of the attitudes and behaviours of Australians, researching who we are, and why we behave as we do, for nearly s...

AWW21 The Insider - Christopher Pyne

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When his father died unexpectedly at 59, Christopher Pyne learned that life is short in the toughest possible way. He became a man in a hurry, and fou...

AWW21 The Living Sea of Waking Dreams - Richard Flanagan

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One of Australia’s greatest writers and seer of our times, Booker Prize-winner Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams describes the en...

AWW21 The Mother Fault - Kate Mildenhall

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The world shifted slowly, then so fast, while they watched but didn’t see. In Kate Mildenhall’s compulsive The Mother Fault, Mim’s comfortable, ...

AWW21 The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s The Mountains Sing is the epic, multigenerational tale of the Tran family, set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Sp...

AWW21 The Palace Letters - Jenny Hocking

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Distinguished historian Jenny Hocking fought for over a decade for access to correspondence between Governor General John Kerr and Buckingham Palace a...

AWW21 The Music Advantage - Anita Collins

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In her book, The Music Advantage: How Learning Music Helps Your Child’s Brain and Wellbeing, Dr Anita Collins outlines the remarkable and surprising...

AWW21 The Porous Present: Love, Life and Legacies - Nardi Simpson and Karen Wyld

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Karen Wyld’s Where the Fruit Falls, Brigid sets off on an epic journey with her twin babies, one white and one black, searching for lost love. Na...

AWW21 The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive - Philippe Sands

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

From the award winning author of the celebrated East West Street comes the real life thriller The Ratline, a mesmerising biography of a devoted husban...

AWW21 The River Runs Dry - Richard Beasley, Grant Rigney and Margaret Simons

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Murray-Darling Basin is dying. Despite its catastrophic plight, and the devastating findings of the South Australian Royal Commission, policy is c...

AWW21 The Virus is Here: Pandemics in Fiction - Emily St. John Mandel and Laura Jean McKay

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As the Lockdowns of 2020 began, Laura Jean McKay’s story of a world collapsing in the midst of a viral epidemic, The Animals in That Country, seized...

AWW21 The Rise of Independent Media - Peter Fray, Margaret Simons and Michael West

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With over half a million Australians joining Kevin Rudd’s call for a Royal Commission into News Corp and the concentration of media power in this co...