Mar 2, 2020 | Article, Lunch Hour Talks
Speaker: Natalie Conyer Topic: Present Tense When South Africa moved from apartheid to majority rule, locally produced crime fiction became extremely popular. Why was this? What does crime fiction have to say about the new South Africa, and how does it deal with...
Dec 4, 2019 | Lunch Hour Talks
Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng A Long Way from No Go Indigenous writer Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng has written a moving and disturbing book about how she was dismissed from her role as a senior public servant during the Howard Government. She had blown the whistle on a false...
Sep 9, 2019 | Lunch Hour Talks
Speaker: Dr Michelle Arrow Topic: The Seventies: the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia. Date: Thursday 17 October The 1970s were a tumultuous period of economic and political upheaval, reflected in ‘It’s Time’, stagflation and the Dismissal....
Jun 22, 2019 | Lunch Hour Talks
Speaker: Dr Sue Taffe Topic: Letters From The Desert: Mary Montgomerie Bennett Date: 15 August 2019 An under-recognised path-breaker in the long, tortuous journey towards recognition of Indigenous Australians, Mary Montgomerie Bennett moved from London in 1927 to...
Apr 2, 2019 | Lunch Hour Talks
Topic: Careering into Corrections — from housewife to prison officer Date: Thursday 20 June 2019 Suburban housewife and mother Cleo Lynch, midway through an Arts degree majoring in Medieval English, experienced a life-changing event leading to a career in the NSW...
Mar 4, 2019 | Lunch Hour Talks
Topic: Saffron and Silk – An Australian in India Date: Thursday 21 March 2019 Anne Benjamin’s book opens with a wedding between unlikely lovers: an Indian-born development worker and a Catholic academic from Sydney who left the predictability of life in...
