Anne Manne is a Melbourne writer, essayist and social philosopher. She has been a regular columnist for The Australian and The Age.
More recently her essays on varied areas of contemporary culture such as child abuse, feminism and pornography, gendercide and our treatment of people with a disability have all appeared in The Monthly.
Her essay ‘Ebony: The Girl in the Room’, was included in Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection. Her book, Motherhood; How Should we Care for our Children, was a finalist in the Walkley Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 2006. She has written a Quarterly Essay, Love and Money: The Family and the Free Market, and a memoir, So This is Life: Scenes from a Country Childhood. She is currently writing a book on narcissism.
Our panel explores happiness and its relationships with joy, belief, meaning, depression and life in our cities.
Writer Anne Manne discusses Australia's desperate need for more genuine engagement with ability issues.
