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The State We're In
About this Session
About this Session
About this Session
What can be done to tackle the current political crisis in Australia and globally?This session will offer solutions as part of helping get people out of the sense of despair which is a big part of the current problem. For instance, the session will range over topics about:
- how to improve the media’s role
- what are the relevant lessons from
What can be done to tackle the current political crisis in Australia and globally?This session will offer solutions as part of helping get people out of the sense of despair which is a big part of the current problem. For instance, the session will range over topics about:
- how to improve the media’s role
- what are the relevant lessons from history which can now be applied
- better and/or different policy and political approaches we can take based on the comparative success of some countries where the crisis of democracy and the fragmentation of political parties and their constituencies is currently much less severe.
3.00 -4.00pm
Senior Citizens Hall
52a Alma St, Maryborough
$20
Denis Muller
About this Session
About this Session
Dr Denis Muller is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne and author of several books, including Journalism and the Future of Democracy (2021) and Journalism Ethics for the Digital Age (2014). He is a former Assistant Editor (Investigations) of The Sydney Morning Herald and
Dr Denis Muller is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne and author of several books, including Journalism and the Future of Democracy (2021) and Journalism Ethics for the Digital Age (2014). He is a former Assistant Editor (Investigations) of The Sydney Morning Herald and Associate Editor of The Age. He writes regularly for The Conversation on media issues.
Andrew Scott
Dennis Glover
Dennis Glover
Dr Andrew Scott is Emeritus Professor Politics and Policy at Deakin University. has published 6 books, mainly on labour history, and social democratic policy options for Australia, including The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia which is still no. 1 bestselling political book of Melbourne University Press 3 years after publication
Dennis Glover
Dennis Glover
Dennis Glover
Dr Dennis Glover is an Australian writer and novelist. The son of factory workers, Dennis grew up in the working class Melbourne suburb of Doveton before studying at Monash University and King’s College Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in history. He has worked for two decades as an academic, newspaper columnist, policy adviser and sp
Dr Dennis Glover is an Australian writer and novelist. The son of factory workers, Dennis grew up in the working class Melbourne suburb of Doveton before studying at Monash University and King’s College Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in history. He has worked for two decades as an academic, newspaper columnist, policy adviser and speechwriter to Australia’s most senior political, business and community leaders. An often outspoken political commentator, his books include An Economy is not a Society, The Art of Great Speeches and Orwell’s Australia. His debut novel The Last Man in Europe tells the dramatic story of how George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. His second novel, Factory 19, is an Arcadian story about the factory world and how we lived before the invention of the mobile phone and the computer. And his most recent novel Thaw retells the Scott of the Antarctic story for the age of climate change.