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Indigenous
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Germaine Greer | Sydney | Nov. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 At this Sydney PEN event, author, academic and barrister Larissa Behrendt speaks about the notion of legacy in relation to Australia's indigenous past, present and future. After her talk she discusses these ideas with Prof Germaine Greer. Behrendt's Legacy is the f... » play video
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Marcia Langton | Melbourne | Aug. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2"There are simplistic, bourgeois ideas about what causes rage in such (remote) communities - simplistic, naive, self-serving, urban, bourgeois view(s).. The jig is up."To coincide with the launch of his new book, The Politics of Suffering, author and anthropologist Peter Sutto... » play video
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Fred Chaney | Adelaide | Jul. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2In this stirring address to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, Fred Chaney takes a critical look at the long-term failures of the Australian political system in relation to the nation's indigenous communities. He takes particular aim at the inability of bureacracies and welfarist pol... » play video
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Pat Anderson | Melbourne | Jun. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2June 2009 marks the second anniversary of the ‘National emergency response to protect Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory’, announced by the former Federal Government in 2007. Pat Anderson, the co-author of the Little Children are Sacred report into abuse of Indigenous c... » play video
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Gillian Cowlishaw | Sydney | Jun. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 A new generation of Indigenous leaders and thinkers are ready to break the mould with new thinking, activism and positive engagement for Australia and its Indigenous population. In this Sydney Writers' Festival event, our panellists discuss how this generation of Indigenous leade... » play video
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Melissa Lucashenko | Sydney | Oct. 2008
The second lecture in the 2008 Sydney PEN Voices: 3 Writers series, Melissa Lucashenko delivers a stirring treatise on the subject of Survival. “Traditional Aboriginal culture has been portrayed by many outsiders as embodying the Aussie values of survival... From an Indigenous perspective, however... » play video
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Germaine Greer | Melbourne | Sep. 2008
In her opening night keynote address at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Professor Germaine Greer delivers a stirring speech on the topic of rage. With characteristic intellectual breadth and dynamism, the talk ranges from classical literary representations of rage and the genealogy of the concept to... » play video
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Clare Martin | Melbourne | Sep. 2008
In a dynamic and at times tense discussion chaired by Archbishop Philip Freier, the Hon Clare Martin (former NT Chief Minister) and Professor Marcia Langton (Chair of Indigenous Studies at Melbourne University) debate issues relating to the lead-up and implementation of the recent NT intervention.... » play video
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Ben Genocchio | Melbourne | Aug. 2008
Australian author, essayist and art critic (New York Times) Ben Genocchio discusses his new book on the world of Aboriginal art, Dollar Dreaming, with Age art critic Robert Nelson. He talks about its economic aspects as well as his experience interviewing curators, collectors, gallery owners, and tr... » play video
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Chloe Hooper | Melbourne | Jul. 2008
Chloe Hooper discusses the writing of her new non-fiction book The Tall Man with former Monthly editor Sally Warhaft. Exploring the events surrounding the death of Cameron Doomadgee in police custody on Palm Island, the book expands on the story originally told in her Walkley Award-winning essay in... » play video
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