AWW22 Holding the Hose - Richard Flanagan

Chaired by Kerry O'Brien


Richard Flanagan returns to Writers’ Week for a wide-ranging
discussion with Kerry O’Brien. Drawing on his journalism of
recent years, particularly his now iconic essay The Australian
Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-freedom and
his recent bestseller on the salmon industry, Toxic, Richard and
Kerry discuss the conformity that blights our national life,
along with ideas of freedom, leadership, and the roots of
inequality. If we are to find hope, Richard says, we must finally
take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful.