Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 17 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
The concept of heritage listing a building or a mountain is a well defined and familiar one, but preserving and maintaining a link with the past and building a narrative as a culture, involves far more tenuous elements.
Who protects our stories, our histories, our memories? In partnership with the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World program, we reflect on the importance and impermanence of memory. Chaired by Michael Cathcart.
Featuring
Sue Pascoe
Sue Pascoe was a commissioner on the recent Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission.
Sue Pascoe is a Commissioner with the State Services Authority chairing inquiries for the Victorian Government in regulatory and social policy. From February 2009 – July 2010 she was one of three Commissioners on the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission established after the devastating bushfires on 7 February 2009 in which 173 people died.
Ms Pascoe has chaired the Australian National Commission for UNESCO and participated in several Australian delegations to the OECD and to UNESCO. Earlier in her career she was professionally involved in the education sector where she held the roles of Chief Executive of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority and of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria.
Ms Pascoe has undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in arts, education and administration. She was a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 1994. She has published and presented in the areas of governance, regulatory reform, civics and citizenship and systemic reform.
Nam Le
Nam Le’s work encompasses fiction, non-fiction, poetry and screen. His debut poetry collection 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem was published in March in Australia, the U.S. and U.K. Poems from it appeared in Paris ...
Mary Delahunty
Mary Delahunty is a Gold Walkley Award winning journalist and presenter with ABC TV and commercial networks. She served for 7 years as a Victorian state government minister in senior portfolios and has seen the tensions from both sides. She is currently working as a consultant in government, media and the non-for profit sector where she heads numerous boards.
She is the author of Public Life Private Grief (Hardie Grant), her own memoir about political life and loss, and the newly released Gravity: Inside the PM’s office during her last year and final days.
Mary has written about Julia Gillard for Crikey, The Hoopla, The Drum and published an essay about Gillard’s last 24 hours in Good Weekend. She also contributed a long form essay “Liars, Witches and Trolls” for Griffith Review 40. She lives in Melbourne.
