Can Truth Make a Comeback?

Sun 8 Sep 2019

David Isaacs + Jamil Jivani + Richard Cooke

Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland

Panel

8120

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Fake news, the rise of the far right, voting driven by fear. More now than ever, people are craving truth based on evidence and facts. How and where do we find it? Who is setting the example we all crave? This session is presented in partnership with Griffith University

#Artists

David Isaacs

Professor David Isaacs is a consultant paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, and Clinical Professor in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Sydney. He has been a member of every Australian national immunisation advisory committee for the last 25 years. He is passionate about bioethics, and has published and taught extensively on ethical aspects of immunisation. He is one of several doctors who have exposed what they say is a culture of violence, abuse, self‐harm and cover-up on Nauru, in defiance of laws that could land them in prison.

Jamil Jivani

Jamil Jivani was raised in Toronto with an absent father and a distrust of the police which saw him heading towards a life of crime. He is now a corporate lawyer and a visiting professor at Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School focussing on issues affecting youth, immigrants and low-income families.

Richard Cooke

Richard Cooke is The Monthly’s US correspondent and contributing editor. His work appears in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best of Longform, Best Australian Essays, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and Australian Foreign Affairs. He is the current Mumbrella Publish Columnist of the Year, and was a finalist in the 2018 Walkley–Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism.

#Moderator

Susan Forde

Susan Forde is Director of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, and Professor of Journalism at Griffith University, Brisbane. She works in the fields of alternative and independent media and recently carried out a Visiting Scholar’s appointment at New York University to investigate public trust, transparency and the media. She is the author of Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media (Palgrave Macmillan); and co-author of Developing Dialogues: Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia (Intellect). Her newest work, Journalism for Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives co-authored with colleagues from Griffith University and Simon Fraser University (Canada) was published by Routledge in early 2017. It offers different models for journalism that might mobilise the public and enable the media to better report climate crisis. She worked as a journalist in the independent and alternative media before joining academia.