Our Exceptional Friend

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


Read more about MWF’s live events Covid plan here.