Media Enquiries
Reading in the headlines
As the peak body for recreational reading in Australia, Australia Reads is available to comment on a range of topics relating to national reading rates and trends, including:
- The latest research and data around reading rates in Australia
- Early years literacy and the importance of reading to children
- The benefits of shared and family reading
- Ways of supporting children and teenagers to engage with reading
- Social experiences of reading and book clubs
- Strategies for getting back into reading
- Behavioural science insights into changing reading habits
Australia Reads is also available to connect journalists and media outlets with authors, librarians, booksellers and publishers.
Contact us: he***@****************rg.au
View the biography and headshot for Anna Burkey, Head of Australia Reads.
Anna Burkey is the Head of Australia Reads, a national not-for-profit on a mission to get more Australians reading.
Originally hailing from Scotland, Anna was on the founding team of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature and worked with the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Now living in Melbourne/Naarm, she has held senior roles at State Library Victoria – establishing the Children’s Quarter and leading the Centre for Youth Literature – and at the Australian Publishers’ Association, where she oversaw communications and public advocacy for the publishing sector.
She is passionate about books, storytelling, and learning, and wants to see more Australians have access to the life-changing benefits of recreational reading.