Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 18 February
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Without exception, the biggest news story to close out 2010 was the rise and rise of WikiLeaks. As cable after cable appeared in the world’s newspapers, and the governments of the globe dissembled as diplomatic niceties were washed away, journalists and citizens alike raised their voices in defence of the website and its controversial founder. But what are the lasting implications of WikiLeaks? Where does the public’s right to know begin and end?
Featuring
Suelette Dreyfus
Suelette Dreyfus is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne. She is the Principal Researcher on the World Online Whistleblowing Survey, and part of an international team looking at the impact of technology on whistleblowing about wrongdoing.
Her interests include privacy technologies and how they affect the balance of between the State and the Citizen. She is the author of Underground, which has been translated into 7 languages. Prior to entering academia, she was a journalist with the Age and The Independent.
Lyndal Curtis
Lyndal Curtis is Chief Political Correspondent for ABC radio’s AM, The World Today and PM.
Lyndal Curtis has reported on Federal politics for almost all of the last twenty years. She has reported on four Prime Ministers, six elections and more budgets than she cares to count.
Julian Burnside
Julian Burnside is a Melbourne barrister. He joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He specialises in commercial litigation, and has acted in many very contentious cases - the MUA Waterfront dispute; the Cash-for-Comment enquiry; cases for Alan Bond and Rose Porteous - but has become known for his human rights work and has acted pro bono in many refugee cases.
He is an outspoken opponent of the mistreatment of people who come to Australia seeking protection from persecution. His latest book is Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice (Scribe).
Paul Ramadge
Paul Ramadge was appointed Editor-in-Chief of The Age and The Sunday Age in September 2008.
He has been a media man throughout his 30-year career, transitioning from a brief stint in a television newsroom to country and regional newspapers before joining The Age as Night Editor in 1996, in time for that year’s federal election. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of The Newcastle Herald and was one of Australia’s youngest daily newspaper editors when appointed to lead a country newspaper in 1983.
At The Age, Paul has held leadership roles in news and product development. He is a former Senior Deputy Editor, Saturday Editor and Executive Editor, and edited the paper’s award-winning coverage of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
Paul is passionate about The Age, its role in Melbourne and the nation, and about the wonderfully diverse city of Melbourne.