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In conversation with Geoff Raby

In conversation with Geoff Raby

Geoff Raby was in conversation with Allan Behm on the updated edition of his book China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order and his recent publication, Great Game On. The contest for Central Asia and Global Supremacy.

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Meet the author- Judith Brett

In conversation with Judith Brett

Award-winning biographer Judith Brett was in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics.

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Meet the author - Steve Vizard

Meet the author - Steve Vizard

Steve Vizard was in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on Nation, Memory, Myth. Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary, a book in which Steve Vizard brings an original perspective to the foundational myth of Gallipoli as a sacred bearer of Australian national values and identity.

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Meet the author- Dervla McTiernan

Best-selling author Dervla McTiernan was in conversation with Chris Hammer with her much-anticipated new novel in the Cormac Reilly series, The Unquiet Grave.

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Meet the author- Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville was in conversation with Ann McGrath on her new book Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place.

What does it mean to be on land taken from others? ‘What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’

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Meet the author- Joan Beaumont

Joan Beaumont was in conversation with Christina Twomey on her new book Gull Force Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45.

The members of the Australian battalion of Gull Force endured some of the harshest prisoner-of-war conditions of any Australian during the Second World War.

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Meet the author- Jess Hill

Jess Hill was in conversation with Hayley Boxall on Jess's new Quarterly Essay Losing It Can We Stop Violence Against Women and Children?

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Meet the author- Vincent Fantauzzo

Vincent Fantauzzo was in conversation with Helen Musa on his memoir Unveiled, the incredible true story of how a street-fighting petty criminal, who was kicked out of school at fourteen, became one of Australia’s most celebrated and successful portrait artists.

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Meet the author - Robert Dessaix

Robert Dessaix was in conversation with Andrew Leigh on his new book Chameleon: A memoir of art, travel, ideas and love.

Robert Dessaix’s Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story to story, Dessaix describes an identity in flux: his beginnings as an adopted child named Thomas Robert Jones, his youthful interest in religious thinking, his obsession with all things Russian, his marriage to Lisa and divorce, his discovery of travel.

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Meet the author - Bettany Hughes

Best-selling author and TV historian Bettany Hughes was in conversation with Caillan Davenport on her book The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a revelatory new history of the ancient world told through its seven greatest monuments.

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Meet the author - Stan Grant

Stan Grant was in conversation with Mark Kenny on his book Murriyang.Song of Time. Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, he offers a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness, rooted in the Wiradjuri spiritual practice of Yindyamarra – deep silence and respect.

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Meet the author- Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks was in conversation with Alex Sloan on her new book Memorial Days, a heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.

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Meet the author - Misha Ketchell, Frank Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Mark Kenny

Misha Ketchell was moderating a discussion with Frank Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Mark Kenny, contributors to the new collection of essays, How Australian Democracy Works. And why we need it more than ever, edited by Amanda Dunn, a book in which The Conversation‘s best authors reveal the real story of how power works in Australia.

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Meet the author- Arnold Dix

Arnold Dix was in a conversation with Alex Sloan on his new book The Promise. How an everyday hero made the impossible possible.

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Meet the author- Juno Gemes

Juno Gemes was in a conversation with Linda Burney, moderated by Ann McGrath, on her new book Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights.

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Meet the author- George Megalogenis

George Megalogenis was conversation with Niki Savva on his new quarterly essay Minority Report The New Shape of Australian Politics

Australian politics is shifting. The two-party system was broken at the last federal election, and another minority government is a real possibility in the future. Politics-as-usual is not enough for many voters.

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Meet the author- David Marr

David Marr, one of Australia's foremost writers and thinkers, was in conversation with Andrew Leigh on the updated edition of his book, My Country: Stories, Essays and Speeches

David Marr is the rarest of breeds: one of Australia’s most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr’s hands, reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time.

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Meet the author - Peter FitzSimons

Best-selling author, Peter FitzSimons was in conversation with Mathew Trinca on his new book The Legend of Albert Jacka: From the brutal shores of Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, the epic story of the first Australian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross in WW1.

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Meet the author- John Safran

John Safran was in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on his new book Squat, in which he recounts his time squatting in a Hollywood celebrity’s abandoned mansion..With the celebrity’s promotion of Hitler as a kick-off point, Safran explores threads of Jewishness, identity and belonging – topics that couldn’t hit closer to home.

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Meet the author- Benjamin Stevenson

Benjamin Stevenson was in conversation with Jack Heath on his new novel Everyone this Christmas has a Secret, a Christmas addition to his bestselling Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe...

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