Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 15 September
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
In this Lunchbox/Soapbox, highly respected Australian journalist Paul Cleary expands on his polemic on the insidious effects of Australia’s mining boom.
Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea: an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the middle of the day.
At the Wheeler Centre we’re keen to showcase our writers as thinkers and as artists, as people with passions and peccadilloes. So we’ve come up with Lunchbox/Soapbox: a weekly space for them to sound off on a topic of their choice. Think of it as a 20-minute piece of polemic to give lunching CBD folk something to chew on.
Featuring
Paul Cleary
Paul Cleary the author of Too Much Luck: The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future. He is a senior writer with The Australian and a researcher at the Australian National University.
In a career spanning twenty years he has reported on politics and economics, worked as a correspondent in Southeast Asia and been an adviser to the government of East Timor. His previous books are Shakedown: Australia’s Grab for Timor Oil and The Men Who Came Out of the Ground.