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🎈“You Don’t Have To Have a Dream (Advice for the Incrementally Ambitious)” is now out in paperback in the UK, Australia and other Commonwealth countries.
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Even Darius has his good angles. Arguably.
All episodes of Season 2 of The Artful Dodger are available today on Disney+ and Hulu.

MACKENZIE is on the VCE Theatre Studies Playlist for 2026!

We are thrilled that next year Victorian students will be able to study Yve Blake's fantastic new adaptation of MACBETH as part of their curriculum.

This isn't Yve Blake's first time making it onto the VCE Drama and Theatre Studies Playlist either – in 2021, her iconic musical FANGIRLS also made the list. Congratulations, Yve!

🌟 Our next guest on Lives Well Lived is Tim Minchin — composer, lyricist, comedian, actor, writer, and one of the sharpest creative minds of our time. 🌟

Some conversations entertain you; others shift something quietly inside. Our episode with Tim does both.

We start with his beloved songs — White Wine in the Sun and Come Home, Cardinal Pell — and move quickly to what interests me most: how knowledge shapes the way we live. For Tim, the vastness of the universe brings not dread but gratitude and wonder — and listening to him speak about that was one of my favourite moments. 

We explore his Nine Life Lessons, why “you don’t have to have a dream,” and how much of a life is luck versus choice — which leads naturally into free will, responsibility, and happiness. At one point Tim compares happiness to… or***ms. I challenge him, of course, and we end up talking about why purpose matters so deeply.

That brings us to AI: how it removes some of our purposes, and why Tim insists that whatever AI creates, it isn’t art. Peter pushes back with the example of photography, and suddenly we’re in a rich conversation about creativity, technology, and meaning.

And finally — in true Lives Well Lived style — we talk about aging, purpose, and how life looks at 50, at 70, and beyond.

It’s funny, thoughtful, a bit philosophical — very Tim Minchin.
I think you’ll enjoy it.

Link to the episode below 👇

🎧 Lives Well Lived