Authors and Guests

Anthea Fawcett

Moderator/ Host, Podcaster, Writer

Anthea describes herself as a bowerbird sustainability, policy, corporate affairs and community development professional with over thirty years experience walking & talking (up) the rapid transitions we need in and around climate, food systems, for Reconciliation and to protect the environment and our precious biodiversity. She is the Founder of Foodswell Ltd, an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS Sydney and the creator and host of Foodswell’s podcast Nourishing Matters to Chew On. More recently she has worked with the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water in the Taskforce that delivered the world’s first Global Nature Positive Summit in Sydney in 2024.

Anthea will again be joining us in 2025

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Our Guests

Hilary Bell

Hilary Bell writes for stage, radio, screen and music theatre. Hilary Bell writes for stage, radio, screen and music theatre. We're proud to have her involved in our Primary Creative Writing Workshop and our Community Storytelling

James McKenzie Watson

James McKenzie Watson writes fiction with a focus on health and rural Australia. His novel Denizen won the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize

Chanel Contos

Founder of the ‘Teach us Consent’ movement, and winner of the Human Rights Awards Young People’s Medal, Chanel Contos is an activist achieving BIG changes. 

Debra Oswald

Debra Oswald is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and creator/head writer of the TV series Offspring.

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