Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 16 June
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
For many decades Australia was the country that rode on the sheep’s back. No more – now we are a country of mining and services. In the new QE, one of Australia’s most original and respected political thinkers, Judith Brett, looks at what this has meant for the country and the city in our politics and culture. What will be the fate of rural and regional Australia in an era of economic rationalisation, water cutbacks, climate change, droughts and flooding rain? Does urban Australia care for or understand the country anymore?
Featuring
Don Watson
Don Watson is the author of many books, including Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, Death Sentence, American Journeys, The Bush and The Passion of Private White. He contributes regular pieces to the Monthly. High Noon is his third Quarterly Essay.
Judith Brett
Judith Brett is a political historian and biographer and emeritus professor of politics at La Trobe University. Among her books are Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People: Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class, The Enigmatic ...