Christine Jackman has spent her career as an investigative journalist observing, examining, and writing about our world at a frantic pace. We must, however, make time to pause … to breathe … to introspect. With an enquiring and analytical mind, Christine seeks these moments of quiet in our busy world to ask, where to from here? Following their First Word address, Ellen van Neerven delivers the Last Word of the Brisbane Writers Festival, looking ahead to the event’s 60th anniversary in 2022. Ellen closes the program with a First Nations perspective on prominent themes and ideas from our Festival conversations.