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Monday 16 June
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Globalisation has ushered us into an era where the ability to travel almost anywhere in the world is at our fingertips. As more and more people hit the road, seeking out cultures and places previous generations could only dream of ever seeing, many unexpected and awkward questions are raised.
Do travellers treat other countries as theme parks? What responsibilities do visitors have? Does their presence help destroy cultures, or enrich them? Are we in fact moving towards a homogenous global super culture? Lonely Planet co-founder (and the man with his name in ours) Tony Wheeler sits down with a panel of travel bugs to assess the damage, the risks and the benefits of travel.
Joining Tony are Doug Hendrie and Laura Jean McKay. Doug is a journalist and author of Amalgamations: How Globalisation is Good. Laura is a writer and performer whose short-story collection Holiday in Cambodia was hugely acclaimed upon its release. Together they try to make sense of the place where local, foreign, national and international life and culture meet.
Hosted by Marni Cordell, editor of Crikey.
Featuring
Tony Wheeler
Tony Wheeler is an English-Australian publishing entrepreneur, businessman, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife Maureen Wheeler.
Marni Cordell
Marni Cordell is the editor of Crikey. She is the former editor and owner of news website, New Matilda, and is a strong believer in independent media.
She has also worked at The Australian and the ABC and has written for Guardian Australia.
Laura Jean McKay
Laura Jean McKay is the author of Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc. 2013), shortlisted for three national book awards in Australia. Her work appears in Meanjin, Overland, Best Australian Stories, the Saturday Paper, and the North American Review. Laura is a lecturer in creative writing at Massey University, with a PhD from the University of Melbourne focusing on literary animal studies. She is the ‘animal expert’ presenter on ABC Listen’s Animal Sound Safari. The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020) is her debut novel.
Doug Hendrie
A freelance foreign correspondent, magazine writer and lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Doug’s interest is in the unusual – subcultures, personalities, histories.
He’s reported on everything from Gold Coast sex surrogates to the Cave Clan urban explorers of Melbourne, and was the principal researcher for Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Julia Gillard.
His work has been published in the Christian Science Monitor (US), the Diplomat, the Australian, the Age, the Griffith Review, Good Weekend, Edge magazine (UK), PC Powerplay, Penthouse Australia, New Matilda, ABC’s The Drum, New Matilda, Sunday Life and more.