2025 Canberra Writers Festival
Get involved in an engaging program of Festival events being held at MoAD.
Location
18 King George Terrace, Parkes
When
25 – 26 October
Join art-makers, big thinkers and storytellers for a variety of 2025 Canberra Writers Festival events. For the full program, visit Canberra Writers Festival.
Getting here and parking
We are located inside Old Parliament House. Our address is 18 King George Terrace, Parkes, ACT.
There are paid, short-stay spaces at the front and on either side of Old Parliament House. Paid, long-stay spaces are behind Old Parliament House on Queen Victoria Terrace and next to the Treasury and John Gorton Buildings, all a five-minute walk from our front entrance.
The accessible entrance and lift access is located through the doors on either side of the bottom of the central staircase.
Visit our Getting here and parking page for more information.
Saturday October 25
9:30-11am King's Hall: She Shapes History Quest (tour)
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10-11am Senate: Wake Up! The Essay as Alarm Clock
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10:30-11:30am House of Representatives: Diplomats and Disasters: Embassies on the Front Line
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11:30am-12:30pm Senate: Method or Madness?
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12-1pm House of Representatives: The USA, Trump and Friends
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12:30-2pm King's Hall: She Shapes History Quest (tour)
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1:30-2:30pm House of Representatives: Stalin, Mao... Putin, Xi, Trump? The march of authoritarian history
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2-3pm Senate: Profit vs. Planet vs. Human
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3-4pm House of Representatives: Dispatch from the Diplomat
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3:30-4:30pm Senate: Conspiracy vs. Trust
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Sunday October 26
10-11am House of Representatives: Whitlam: Unleashed and Unvarnished
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10:30-11:30am Senate: Hawke – From Larrikin to Legend
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11:30am-12:30pm House of Representatives: Code of Silence: Aussie Women Who Helped Win the War
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12-1pm Senate: Australia: Sleepwalking off a Cliff?
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1:30-2:30pm House of Representatives: Toys, Curios and Fragments of the Past
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2-3pm Senate: Big Ideas and Bold Reforms
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3-4pm House of Representatives: Lost and Found: Zara Holt
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3:30-4:30pm Senate: Whitlam's Dismissal: On These Very Steps
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Plan your visit
We are located inside Old Parliament House. Our address is 18 King George Terrace, Parkes, ACT. There are paid, short-stay spaces at the front and on either side of Old Parliament House. Paid, long-stay spaces are behind Old Parliament House on Queen Victoria Terrace and next to the Treasury and John Gorton Buildings, all a five-minute walk from our front entrance.
The accessible entrance and lift access is located through the doors on either side of the bottom of the central staircase. Senate and House of Representatives: the entry level is wheelchair accessible. There are some small steps from the entry level down onto the floor of the chambers. Some areas are not accessible to wheelchair users.
Each event has seating.
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