Peter Jones: Australia's Argonauts
Workshop
Peter will discuss the research and writing of Australia’s Argonauts, a narrative history of the 28 members of the first class to enter the Royal Australian Naval College. The class members were all born in 1899 and came from every state in Australia. They were witness to, or played a significant…
Christine Milne: Reflecting on ‘An Activist Life’
Workshop
Over the years I have written hundreds of press releases and speeches, yet writing a political autobiography was a challenging task. How does a private person allergic to celebrity and identity politics go about it? Why would you do it? Having been a critic of many political autobiographies as self…
Christine Milne: Reflecting on ‘An Activist Life’
Workshop
Over the years I have written hundreds of press releases and speeches, yet writing a political autobiography was a challenging task. How does a private person allergic to celebrity and identity politics go about it? Why would you do it? Having been a critic of many political autobiographies as self…
Kim Mahood - The Writer as Cartographer
Workshop
‘I am someone who returns again and again to geography, as the writers of another generation returned repeatedly to Freud and psychoanalysis.’ This quote from Barry Lopez encapsulates Kim Mahood’s preoccupations as a writer and artist, and reflects her conviction that geography is central to…
Gareth Evans - Different Strokes for Different Folks
Workshop
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC has published both a political diary, Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary (2014), and a comprehensive political memoir, Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir (2017), but – while the subject of a biography (Keith Scott, 1999) – has made clear…
Joanna Gilmour & Kate Fullagar - Indigenous Lives Through Portraiture
Workshop
The talk focusses on the forthcoming Founding Pairs exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. It is the first production of an ARC Linkage grant on comparative approaches to the early history of Australasia through portraiture and biography. The show will pair so-called European founding fathers…
Gabrielle Carey - Falling Out of Love with Ivan Southall
Workshop
This talk will explore the phenomenon of Ivan Southall and his influence on a generation of young readers and emerging writers, including his influence on nine-year-old Gabrielle Carey, who fell in love with the author after reading To the Wild Sky in 1968. Almost fifty years later Gabrielle…