Neoliberalism & its effects

Fri 6 Sep 2019

Antony Loewenstein + Richard Cooke

Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland

Panel

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#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Commentators have been calling the end of neoliberalism for some years now. Hear from three experts on the impacts of neoliberalism and what could rise in its stead.

#Artists

Antony Loewenstein

Antony Loewenstein is a Jerusalem-based Australian journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. His latest book is Pills, Powder and Smoke: inside the bloody war on drugs. He's the author of Disaster Capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe; the writer/co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and the co-director of an Al-Jazeera English film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other books include My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution, and Profits of Doom, and he is the co-editor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and is a contributor to For God’s Sake.

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.