Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Sunday 20 November
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The newly released biography from Karen Middleton, Albanese: Telling it Straight, is a window on the recent turbulent years of Australian federal politics with a deeply personal dimension. This is the whole story of Anthony Albanese and the remarkable mother, Maryanne, who raised him.
In partnership with the Word for Word Non-Fiction Festival, we’re presenting this conversation between Middleton and Albanese himself at the magnificent new Geelong Library & Heritage Centre.
The pair will discuss the trajectory of Albanese's political career and Middleton will reflect on the complexities of writing a biography when the subject is still active in public life. Join them at this fabulous location in the heart of Geelong.
Presented in partnership with the Geelong Regional Libraries.
Featuring
Anthony Albanese
Anthony Albanese was re-elected the Member for Grayndler at the July 2016 election and is currently the Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development and the Shadow Minister for Tourism.
Anthony has been a Member of Parliament since 1996, and believes strongly in the need for Government to invest in local communities. This includes Federal Government investment in public transport to address the issue of urban congestion.
Following the election of the Federal Labor Government in November 2007, Anthony became the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, and Leader of the House of Representatives.
Anthony was named Infrastructure Minister of the Year for 2012 by London-based publication Infrastructure Investor, and in 2010 was named Aviation Minister of the Year for producing Australia's first ever aviation white paper.
In June 2013, he became Deputy Prime Minister, and also took on additional responsibility as Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
Anthony is committed to growing our communities in regional and metropolitan areas and believes infrastructure and transport have a crucial role to play in achieving this.
Karen Middleton
Karen Middleton is a political journalist with more than two decades' experience reporting on national and international affairs in print and broadcast media.
A former president of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery and a Churchill Fellow, she is chief political correspondent with SBS TV, a long-time newspaper columnist and radio commentator, and a panellist on the ABC1’s lnsiders. Karen was in Washington DC on September 11, 2001, and reported from Afghanistan in 2007.