AWW22 This is Australia - Claire G. Coleman and Julianne Schultz

Chaired by Kerry O'Brien.


Two deep thinkers and fine writers turn their minds to
contemporary Australia. In Lies, Damned Lies: A Personal
Exploration of the Impact of Colonisation, Claire G. Coleman
gives us insight into the stark reality of the ongoing trauma of
Australia’s violent colonisation. Julianne Schultz’s The Idea of
Australia: A Search for the Soul of the Nation interrogates what
defines us as a country. It tracks the contest between an
imaginative and defensive country, and what we must do to become
our best selves.