Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 27 October
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Lunchbox/Soapbox is a simple idea: an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, in the middle of the day.
At the Wheeler Centre we’re keen to showcase our writers as thinkers and as artists, as people with passions and peccadilloes. So we’ve come up with Lunchbox/Soapbox: a weekly space for them to sound off on a topic of their choice. Think of it as a 20-minute piece of polemic to give lunching CBD folk something to chew on.
Featuring
Bill Gammage
Bill Gammage AM is a historian, Emeritus Professor, Humanities Research Centre Australian National University.
Bill was on the faculty of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of Adelaide. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
He was born in Orange, New South Wales, went to Wagga Wagga High School and then to the Australian National University.
He wrote The Broken Years (1974) on the First AIF, Narrandera Shire (1988), The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-9 (1998), The Biggest Estate on Earth (2011) and with Bruce Pascoe, Country (2021).
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