Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 04 July
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Obviously we’ve all heard that it’s end of days for old school print media, but where does that leave journalists?
Each month at the Wheeler Centre, two writers discuss the points of difference and the common experiences of a creative life.
In partnership with the Victorian Writers' Centre.
Featuring
Mary Delahunty
Mary Delahunty is a Gold Walkley Award winning journalist and presenter with ABC TV and commercial networks. She served for 7 years as a Victorian state government minister in senior portfolios and has seen the tensions from both sides. She is currently working as a consultant in government, media and the non-for profit sector where she heads numerous boards.
She is the author of Public Life Private Grief (Hardie Grant), her own memoir about political life and loss, and the newly released Gravity: Inside the PM’s office during her last year and final days.
Mary has written about Julia Gillard for Crikey, The Hoopla, The Drum and published an essay about Gillard’s last 24 hours in Good Weekend. She also contributed a long form essay “Liars, Witches and Trolls” for Griffith Review 40. She lives in Melbourne.
Jane Sullivan
Jane Sullivan came to Australia from England in 1979 and worked for the Age as a reporter, feature writer and editor of various sections, including the books pages.
Jane won the inaugural Australian Human Rights Award for journalism.
At present, she writes a Saturday column, ‘Turning Pages’, and features about books and writing for the Age. Her first novel was The White Star. Her second novel, Little People, was shortlisted in the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and son.