Is the concept of a country obsolete?

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Saturday 28 November
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Location

Athenaeum Theatre

188 Collins Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Responding to a huge volume of your questions on borders, refugees and migration, Geraldine Brooks, Tom Elliott, Voranai Vanijaka and host Mark Colvin will search for insight and progress on this charged and crucial subject – taking a pragmatic and personal perspective to the problem.

As a nation composed mostly of migrants, modern Australia’s relationship with refugees and asylum seekers runs deep: through regional and global wars, famine and disaster, and economic and political upheavals. In recent years, that discussion has become increasingly polarised and fearful. Meanwhile, asylum seekers continue to suffer in conditions that most people agree are unacceptable, cruel.

Throughout all this, Australia’s challenge and policy response has made world news. Now, with Europe’s dramatic influx of refugees mostly from Syria, the question has renewed urgency – of a kind that demands answers beyond the obfuscation of politics.


Tickets to this event are available at the door. Arrive at least twenty minutes prior to the event to purchase.


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