POSTPONED (TBC) - In conversation with Norman Swan

Norman Swan will be in conversation with Laura Tingle on Norman's new book, So You Think You Know What's Good for You?, which has everything you need to know about health and wellbeing, delivered with Norman Swan's trademark clarity and wit.

For over thirty years, Dr Norman Swan has been delivering straight, honest, common-sense health information to ordinary Australians as both a physician and much-loved broadcaster. And when Australia needed clear, scientifically backed COVID-19 facts and advice, it was Norman Swan who stepped up every day to provide the answers we required.

After many years of listening, Norman Swan knows what medical issues people are curious and concerned about. Drawing on the questions he hears time and again, from millennials to baby boomers and all the generations between, So You Think You Know What's Good For You? is a one-stop handbook that will settle fruitless anxieties and allow people to focus on what matters to them. Replace medical myths, half-truths and misconceptions with the information you need to make better decisions about how to eat and how to live to put your mind at ease and ensure your and your family's health is the best it can be.

Dr Norman Swan, trained in paediatrics, was one of the first medically qualified journalists in Australia, with a broadcast career spanning more than 30 years. He currently hosts Radio National's The Health Report and co-hosts Coronacast, which has 2.6 million monthly downloads. He also reports on the ABC TV's 7.30 and is a guest reporter on Four Corners; appears on The Drum and is an occasional host of Radio National Breakfast. In addition to being an active journalist and health broadcaster, Dr Swan has a deep strategic knowledge of the Australian healthcare system and is committed to evidence-based approaches to help young people, and sits on the board of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth.

Laura Tingle is the chief political correspondent for ABC-TV's 7.30. She won the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism in 2004, and Walkley awards in 2005 and 2011. She is the author of Chasing the Future: Recession, Recovery and the New Politics in Australia and three acclaimed Quarterly Essays, Great Expectations, Political Amnesia and Follow the Leader.

Nobel laureate, Professor Brian SchmidtAC, ANU Vice-Chancellor will deliver the vote of thanks. 

In accordance to the current COVID-19 guidelines in the ACT, masks are mandatory indoors. Attendees are requested to review and follow ACT Health guidelines before attending the event.

This event is in association with The Friends of the ABC and Harry Hartog Bookshop. Books will be available for purchase on the evening in the Cultural Centre foyer. Pre-event book signings will be available from 5.30pm, and available again after the event until 7.30pm.