2025 PROGRAM
The World on Edge: Australia and the New Global Disorder
DATE:
Saturday 21 March, 2026
LOCATION:
Manly Youth Centre
COST:
$25.00
As the international order shifts, leading commentators and strategic thinkers debate Australia’s future in a rapidly changing world. From US–China competition and increased militarisation to disinformation and the erosion of global norms and weakening of Western liberalism and the emergence of an increasingly multipolar world, this finale brings sharply contrasting views to the major strategic questions facing the nation. A dynamic, thought-provoking close to Saturday’s program.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.