For one night only, Magda Szubanski – one of Australia’s most cherished national treasures – shares the deeply personal stories behind her powerful new memoir.
From Sharon Strzelecki in Kath & Kim to her tireless advocacy for marriage equality, Magda Szubanski has helped shape Australia’s cultural and public life with humour, compassion and fierce intelligence.
Her new memoir, I Can’t Tell You But I Will, is her most personal work yet. In it, Szubanski recounts stepping into one of the nation’s defining social campaigns while also caring for her beloved mother, Margaret, through the final years of her life. With characteristic candour and wit, she traverses the difficult terrain between public conviction and private grief and explores what it means to hold joy and sorrow together.
At this Melbourne-exclusive event, the national treasure joins Julia Baird for what promises to be an expansive and deeply personal conversation on the intertwined roles of humour and heartbreak and the courage it takes to keep going when life demands everything at once.
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