Our Exceptional Friend
Series
When
Saturday, 11 Sep 2021, 12:00pm - 01:00pm
Event Status
Past event
Melbourne Writers Festival has cancelled all its live events including Our Exceptional Friend following the extension of Melbourne’s current lockdown.
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Does Australia really have no option but to side with the United States at the expense of our relationship with China? In a special edition of the long-running series The Fifth Estate, historian and Our Exceptional Friend author Emma Shortis speaks with host Sally Warhaft about whose interests our relationship with the US really serves, and why we don’t have to make a binary choice between subservience to an increasingly broken democracy and abandoning a long-standing alliance.
Presented in partnership with Melbourne Writers Festival
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Featuring
Featuring
Emma Shortis is the author of Our Exceptional Friend: Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States. Emma is a historian who is passionate about how history might help us think about building a different future. She also co-hosts a history and politics podcast, Barely Gettin’ By, with ... Read more
Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year, a Wheeler Centre podcast about Australians’ lives in the fog of ... Read more
Location
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000
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