Ideas at the House

Real talk on money, power, financial safety and securing your future

Saddle up for a no-nonsense conversation about women, money and the systems shaping our financial futures. Learn practical skills, gain confidence and rewrite your path to independence.

This frank, practical conversation brings together leading voices shaping the future of women’s financial literacy and security: Tasnia Alam Hannan, Zee Heart and Catherine Fitzpatrick, with Angela Priestley moderating.

From navigating personalised debt traps to the new realities of retirement, this panel offers clear guidance, real talk and empowering pathways forward.
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Laila Lalami’s eerily prophetic new book imagines a world where AI can punish us for “potential crimes”.

Known for her razor-sharp explorations of the immigrant experience, Lalami once again proves the power of fiction to illuminate and anticipate the world around us.
From her celebrated essay collection Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America to her acclaimed novels, she has long interrogated power and national belonging.

Enjoy this rare chance to hear Lalami unpack identity, belonging, justice and the power of storytelling.
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You might be familiar with the concept of the “second shift” — the domestic burden that awaits a woman when she returns home from work. Then there’s the third shift (emotional labour) and the fourth shift (nighttime caregiving). Now we ask: is sex just the so-called “fifth shift”?

Join Yumi Stynes, Chanté Joseph and Aleks Trkulja for an engaging chat about whether keeping the spark alive in long-term relationships is totally hot… or just another unpaid shift women are expected to clock into.

Is maintaining a sex life in log-term relationships a labour of love, or just… labour?

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Bringing up boys isn’t getting any less complicated. One minute they’re sweet, funny little humans. The next, they’re parroting some podcast bro who insists “patriarchy isn’t real” and “grindset” is a personality.

Shows like Adolescence and books like The Anxious Generation tapped a nerve. As toxic masculinity is loudly (and often rightly) called out, a generation of boys is confused and ashamed — and the algorithm is happy to lead them down dark alt-right rabbit holes. It’s part of the reason the Australian government introduced age restrictions for social media accounts.

So how do we cut through the bro-fluencer noise to raise resilient, emotionally literate boys?

Investigative journalist Jess Hill (See What You Made Me Do) and men’s mental health researcher Zac Seidler unpack the cultural forces shaping boys today and how adults can guide them with compassion.
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Miranda July’s “great perimenopause novel”, All Fours tells the story of a woman who abandons routine suburban life for a reckless road trip and an extramarital affair.

All Fours has hit a real-world nerve and since its release in 2024 has been blamed for the break down of both book clubs and marriages. It has become a catalyst for women re-examining their desires, their compromises and their lives.

In “The All Fours Effect”, distinguished panellists Neha Kale, Melanie Kembrey, Jacqueline Maley and Marisa Meltzer dissect this novel and unpack the art, the uproar and the questions we can’t un-ask.

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