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ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN – The Palestine Laboratory

Independent journalist, author and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein shows with revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting how Israel is using Palestine as a laboratory for their military testing using surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration all using high-tech tools which they then export to other nations.

The Read

The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023

ANKE RICHTER – Cult Trip

Anke Richter is a journalist who puts herself on the line in this book by joining a number of different cults and sects to try and understand from the inside what draws people into these organizations. Sometimes she finds things out about herself in the process.

The Read

The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023

ALISON PENNINGTON -Gen f’d? How Young Australians can take back their Stolen Futures.

Alison Pennington is an adjunct senior research Fellow in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at La Trobe University. She explores the very real possibility that the most educated generation in Australia’s history may also be one of its most economically disadvantaged. How did we get to this and can we reverse this slide?

The Read

The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023

ELLEN VAN NEERVEN – Personal Score

In her wonderful read from this book Ellen van Neerven lays out the stark divide between white and indigenous Australian culture in revisiting how Ash Barty was treated by the Sports Press for the simple act of including her niece in a press conference.. Fortunately she sees there is a change in the wind in women’s sport, and these days white and black sports people include their families more fully in their triumphs and losses.

Ellen Van Neerven – The Read

Ellen Van Neerven – The Interview

Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023