#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
White Australia can't solve black problems because white Australia is the problem. In this frank and fearless talk, Sarah Maddison will explore how white Australia can fix the problems it created.
#Artist
Sarah Maddison
Sarah Maddison is Professor of Politics at the University of Melbourne, where she co-directs the Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration. Her work is a critical examination of reconciliation, settler colonialism, and Indigenous-settler relations. Along with her new book The Colonial Fantasy, Sarah is also author of Black Politics and Beyond White Guilt.
#Moderator
Sarah Klenbort
Sarah Klenbort grew up in a house in Atlanta with too many books and not enough cleaning products. She’s lived in Beijing, New York, Wales, Sydney and Brisbane. Sarah teaches creative writing at the University of Queensland and Memoir at Toowong Library and the Queensland Writers Centre. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Best Australian Stories, Overland, Island, Eureka Street, and other journals and anthologies in the UK, US and Australia.