Holding the Hose

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Richard Flanagan returns to Writers’ Week for a wide-ranging discussion with Kerry O’Brien. Drawing on his journalism of recent years, particularly his now iconic essay The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-freedom and his recent bestseller on the salmon industry, Toxic, Richard and Kerry discuss the conformity that blights our national life, along with ideas of freedom, leadership, and the roots of inequality. If we are to find hope, Richard says, we must finally take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful.

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Richard Flanagan's novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish. A rapid on the Franklin River is named after him.

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Kerry O'Brien is one of Australia's most respected journalists. His reporting has earned him six Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley and the Walkley for Journalism Leadership.

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WHEN

Sun 06 Mar, 5:00pm

WHERE

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
East Stage

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FREE
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Wheelchair recharge station and assistance dog water stations available.

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Auslan interpreted

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