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Event Details

  • Date:09 May 2025

  • Time:06:00pm - 07:00pm

  • Location: This is a live streamed event, guests may also attend in person at Vision Australia, 454 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong, VIC

The Vision Australia Library are proud sponsors of this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival. We are honoured to host award-winning author Kate Grenville as she discusses her latest novel, Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place.

Join Kate as she discusses Unsettled, a deeply personal memoir of family legacies, truth-telling and reckoning with what it means to be on land that was taken from other people.  Intertwining her family’s history with the broader story of First Nations peoples’ dispossession and displacement, Kate considers what it means to be descended from people who were ‘on the sharp edge of the moving blade that was colonisation’. She speaks about historical facts and historical fictions, writing challenging histories and confronting the ghosts of the past.

Kate will be In Conversation with Daniel James, a Yorta Yorta Melbourne-based writer and broadcaster.

About Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers, having published 18 books including the international bestseller The Secret River.

Kate’s award-winning books have been published around the world and translated into European and Asian languages. Three of Kate’s books have been adapted for the screen, and one enjoyed sell-out runs at the Adelaide and Edinburgh Festivals as a play.

Registration

This is a free event hosted at Vision Australia head office on Friday, 9 May 2025 from 6pm – 7pm AEST.

To view the livestream of this event, register to join us online.

To attend the event in person, register on the waitlist then contact Vision Australia Library to access tickets reserved for Library members.

Our In Conversation will take place at Vision Australia’s head office in Kooyong.

 

Register to attend our Kooyong office Register to join us online

Venue

We welcome our in-person guests to join us at Vision Australia's head office - 454 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong VIC 3144.  We encourage you to arrive from 5.30pm, to ensure you are comfortably seated for a prompt 6pm start.

The Conference Centre at Kooyong is wheelchair accessible, has an accessible bathroom, and two disabled parking spots available.

Our Kooyong office is located opposite Kooyong train station (on the Glen Waverley line) - simply cross over Talbot Crescent. Tram Route 16 stops on the corner of Glenferrie Road and Talbot Crescent (stop #65).

Street parking is available nearby at Sir Zelman Cowan Park.

Contact

For more information, please feel free to email the Vision Australia Library at visionaustralia.library@visionaustralia.org, or call us on 1300 654 656.