Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Saturday 11 September
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Hansen Hall and Conversation Quarter, State Library Victoria
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000
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Melbourne Writers Festival has cancelled all its live events including Our Exceptional Friend following the extension of Melbourne’s current lockdown.
Ticket bookers will be contacted directly by the Festival.
Does Australia really have no option but to side with the United States at the expense of our relationship with China? In a special edition of the long-running series The Fifth Estate, historian and Our Exceptional Friend author Emma Shortis speaks with host Sally Warhaft about whose interests our relationship with the US really serves, and why we don’t have to make a binary choice between subservience to an increasingly broken democracy and abandoning a long-standing alliance.
Presented in partnership with Melbourne Writers Festival
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Featuring
Emma Shortis
Dr Emma Shortis is Senior Researcher in the International & Security Affairs Program at The Australia Institute. Emma is historian and writer, focused on the history and politics of the United States and its role in the ...
Sally Warhaft
Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year ...