Gleetalks from Gleebooks
Episodes
Jenny Macklin - Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is big policy reform still possible? Does Australia have the political will to tackle generational issues such as climate change, the housing crisis, ...
Nathan Dunne - When Nothing Feels Real
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Dunne was living the life of his dreams in London until, one evening, he jumped into a lake for a swim. When he emerged, his identity was simpl...
50th Birthday Poetry Special
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of Gleetalks, we celebrate not only our 50th birthday this year since Gleebooks was founded in 1975, but our equally long asso...
Gavin Fang & Tracey Kirkland - Age of Doubt: Building Trust in a World of Disinformation
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, trust seems harder to find than ever before. It’s hardly surprising we feel that way. Our politics is polarised, our online world is awash wi...
Earthquake: The election that shook Australia
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Coalition government was overthrown in 2022 after nine years in office, it was tempting to portray the loss as merely a personal repudiation ...
Kumi Taguchi - The Good Daughter
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up, journalist and presenter Kumi Taguchi thought her father was just difficult: reserved to the point of silence, obsessively frugal, and –...
Briony Neilson - Dangers of Youth
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
France at the turn of the twentieth century was deeply preoccupied with the conduct of its young people, especially juvenile offenders, who were viewe...
John Lyons - A Bunker in Kyiv
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By daytime, Ukraine is a sophisticated European country going about its business, and Kyiv seems like an enchanting city. But by night, the sirens roa...
Zeny Edwards - Painting with Stone: The Story of the Melocco Brothers
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the swathe of destruction and demolition in recent decades, Sydney has some architectural gems: the State Library of NSW, the State Theatre, H...
Nick Kaldas - Behind the Badge
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Kaldas is a cop's cop. From investigating war criminals to taking down global drug operations, Kaldas has seen the worst humanity can offer. But ...
Justin Narayan of Masterchef - Everything is Indian
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all love Indian food, but why aren't garam masala or tamarind as common as soy sauce and tomato paste?It’s a question answered by Masterchef winn...
Emma Shortis - After America
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australian political leaders have bent the knee for decades, placing the ANZUS treaty at the centre of the nation’s security. AUKUS has become the l...
George Megalogenis - Minority Rule
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australian politics is shifting. The two-party system was broken at the last federal election, and another minority government is a real possibility a...
Michael Visontay - Noble Fragments
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One hundred years ago, a New York bookseller Gabriel Wells, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world’s greatest book, the Gutenberg ...
Lauren Samuelsson A Matter of Taste
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1933, the Australian Women’s Weekly has been Australia’s highest-selling women’s magazine. And from birthday cakes to barbecues, the Weekl...
Michelle de Kretser - Theory and Practice
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists,...
Geoff Raby - Great Game On
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the Nineteenth Century, the Russian and British played what was dubbed the Great Game for strategic influence in Central Asia.Today, the players ha...
Chris Baker - Swimming Sydney
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Palm Beach to Cronulla, Mount Druitt to Bondi, Sydney is a city made for swimming.Over a calendar year, lifelong swimmer, educator and writer Chr...
Ronni Salt - Gunnawah
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 1970s. The era of flares, treads, Gough… and the founding of Gleebooks – but that’s another story!It was also the age of the advent of femin...
Dr Norelle Lickiss - On the Kindness of Strangers LauncH
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Renowned Australian physician and academic Dr Norelle Lickiss AO discusses her collection of essays "On the Kindness of Strangers and Other Essays: Mu...