Questions for the Nation: Perth

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Saturday 29 July
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Location

Discovery Lounge, State Library of Western Australia

Discovery Lounge, State Library of Western Australia, 25 Francis Street, Perth WA 6000

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What are the most important questions facing Australians – today and in the future?

The Wheeler Centre is roaming Australia, collecting the nation’s most urgent questions and thrashing them out with some of the sharpest thinkers we know. We’re doing it in panel discussions at Brisbane Writers Festival, Perth’s Disrupted Festival of Ideas, Darwin Festival and National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle.

At these sessions, we'll scan the horizons, break deadlocked debates and dust off the issues rotting for too long at the bottom of the nation’s too-hard basket. What are the faultlines and tensions in Australian society, and where do we turn for fresh ideas for the future? Who do we want to be, and how are we going to get there?

In partnership with the State Library of Western Australia's Disrupted Festival of Ideas, social researcher Rebecca Huntley hosts a discussion on the present and future of the nation. Join Sisonke Msimang, Nayuka Gorrie, Zoe Coombs Marr and Brad Ness for their take on the most important question facing Australia today, before the microphone turns to you: what questions should Australia be asking?

Presented in partnership with the State Library of Western Australia’s Disrupted Festival of Ideas.