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Laura Tingle once famously said about Australia: ‘We are a racist country, let's face it. We always have been, and it's very depressing.’ Take that premise as a jumping off point and join Erik Jensen, founding editor of The Saturday Paper and editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media, as he asks academic, activist and author Tony Birch, author and academic Alice Pung and Lord Mayor of Melbourne Nicholas Reece about their experiences in our own home town. Author and journalist George Megalogenis will open the discussion with an introduction to Australia’s social and political stats and facts – both past and present.

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Concession/under 30s - $15

Full - $25

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