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Every child deserves the chance to fall in love with books, not because they have to, but because they want to. With your support, children from all backgrounds can discover the power of storytelling and carry it with them for life.
This festive season, The Wheeler Centre is aiming to raise $15,000 to deliver Wheeler Kids + Education in 2026 and to keep ticket prices genuinely affordable for all families.
All donations over two dollars are fully tax-deductible and will be matched dollar-for-dollar by Planet Wheeler Foundation – doubling your impact.
Donate now: my.wheelercentre.com/donate/q/supportus
Every child deserves the chance to fall in love with books, not because they have to, but because they want to. With your support, children from all backgrounds can discover the power of storytelling and carry it with them for life.
This festive season, The Wheeler Centre is aiming to raise $15,000 to deliver Wheeler Kids + Education in 2026 and to keep ticket prices genuinely affordable for all families.
All donations over two dollars are fully tax-deductible and will be matched dollar-for-dollar by Planet Wheeler Foundation – doubling your impact.
Donate now: my.wheelercentre.com/donate/q/supportus









![Language Under Occupation
Evelyn Araluen reflected, I had all the theory in the world to explain the logics of our erasure, the violence of our replacements, and our more palatable Others. [...] But no one ever asked how we were both colonised by and inheritors of these words – from ‘To the Poets’, Dropbear (2021).
They traced the contours of language, sought out its limits, and pushed against them. Histories were cut up, struck through, misplaced, and misremembered. Evelyn Araluen, Hasib Hourani, and Mykaela Saunders engaged in a conversation about the careful craft of ripping the empire’s language to shreds. In their work, these brilliant writers shifted form in myriad ways; they rendered nonlinear temporalities and introduced new vocabularies. They wielded opacities while sharing the dearest of intimacies. Thinking through poetry and prose, language and craft, these three writers shared the shape of a language unsettled. Language Under Occupation](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E1Yx7W2M4Pw/mqdefault.jpg)
