Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 21 June
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
In the Australian 2010 election, hundreds of thousands of voters chose not to cast a ballot. A new book of essays, edited by Jeff Sparrow and Antony Loewenstein, and aimed at engaging the many, many Australians disillusioned with the political process, asks writers and thinkers who openly identify with the Left to explore why. In this event, we let some fresh air into the political conversation in a wide ranging discussion with editors Jeff and Antony, contributor Kim Bullimore and chair Margaret Simons.
Featuring
Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best-selling author, filmmaker and co-founder of Declassified Australia. He's written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books ...
Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University. In 2015, she won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism. Her recent books include Six Square Metres, Self-Made Man: The Kerry Stokes Story, What's Next in Journalism?, Journalism at the Crossroads and Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, co-written with former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser. The latter won both the Book of the Year and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2011.
In addition to her academic work, Margaret regularly writes for the Saturday Paper, the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, the Monthly and other publications.
Jeff Sparrow
Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster, and Walkley award-winning journalist. He is a columnist for The Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at Melbourne’s 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland literary journal ...
Kim Bullimore
Kim Bullimore is a long-time socialist, political activist and anti-racism campaigner.
A Murri woman and an active campaigner for Australian Indigenous rights, Bullimore is also involved in campaigns for Palestinian self-determination and human rights and other social justice issues, and a volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service, the only all women international peace team working on the ground in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Bullimore writes regularly on the Palestine-Israel conflict for the Australian newspaper Direct Action, and has been published by a range of web-journals, including Electronic Intifada and Palestine Chronicle. In 2010, Kim co-organised the first Australian national Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Conference in support of Palestine.