SEDNEY OPERA
HOUSE AND ST JAMES ETHICS CENTRE PRESENT
SPEAK YOUR MIND #FODI
JOHN PILGER (CHAIR: LIZ ANN MACGREGOR)
31 AUG, 3.30PM TO 4.30PM
John Pilger
addresses the 'great Australian silence', applying it not only to the treatment
of Indigenous people but to class, great power and the limits of public debate.
What are the
'unofficial truths' that are often unmentionable in Australian 'mainstream'
debate? The treatment of First Nations people is often presented in stereotypes
while the majority deny the rapacious past, and present. In matters of class,
Australia's cultivated image of a 'land of fair go for all' increasingly falls
victim to a corporatised world of widening inequality. The mythology of a
proud, independent nation is challenged by the often secretive role of
Australia as an appendage of the United States and the rise of militarism. In
the wake of the release of his latest film, Utopia, John Pilger will be in
conversation to discuss these 'unofficial truths'.
John Pilger
is an internationally renowned Australian journalist and documentary
filmmaker.
Liz Ann
Macgregor is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art. She is a celebrated
member of Australian cultural and public life, and in 2011 received an OBE in
the Queen’s birthday honour list and the Australia Council Visual Arts Medal.
John Pilger
appears with the support of the Edward Said Memorial Lecture.
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