Celebrate 100 editions of Quarterly Essay as special guests Sean Kelly, David Marr and Laura Tingle discuss the power, impact and legacy of the agenda-setting journal.
Three of Australia’s most remarkable writers come together to discuss their Quarterly Essay contributions and what they have learned about politics, writing and Australia’s evolving identity.
Hear from five-time Quarterly Essay contributor David Marr, four-time essayist Laura Tingle and award-winning columnist and author Sean Kelly, whose essay, Belief in Politics, is Quarterly Essay’s 100th edition.
Join them for a broad ranging discussion about the series that illuminates the most pressing political, intellectual and cultural issues of our time.
Presented in partnership with Quarterly Essay
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Tuesday 18 November
6.30 - 8.00pm
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Featuring
David Marr
David Marr’s Killing for Country, A Family Story published in 2023 tracks his great-great-grandfather’s time in the Queensland Native Police during the 1860s, the bloodiest years of the Frontier Wars. In his time as a ...
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly is the author of The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison, for which he was a Walkley finalist in 2022. In 2024 he was a finalist for the Walkley Foundation's Freelance Journalist of the Year and in 2023 he was ...
Laura Tingle
Laura Tingle is the ABC's Global Affairs Editor. She won the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism in 2004, and Walkley awards in 2005 and 2011. She is the author of four acclaimed ...
Michael Williams
Michael Williams is the editor of The Monthly. He was previously the Artistic Director of Sydney Writers’ Festival. He has spent the past decade at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne as ...