Stories from the Frontline of Survival
slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library
L024
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
In We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know, acclaimed journalist Sophie McNeill tells the human stories of devastation and hope behind the headlines - of children, families and refugees, of valiant doctors, steadfast dissidents and Saudi women seeking asylum. Why is it more important than ever to bear witness and not look away? And what lessons can be gained from the frontline of survival?
#Artists
Benjamin Law
Benjamin Law is the author of The Family Law (2010), Gaysia (2012), the Quarterly Essay 'Moral Panic 101' (2017) and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia (2019). He also created and co-wrote three seasons of the award-winning SBS TV series The Family Law and the play Torch the Place for Melbourne Theatre Company. He's co-host of the national pop culture show Stop Everything on ABC Radio National.
Sophie McNeill
Currently the Australia researcher for Human Rights Watch, Sophie McNeill has been an investigative reporter for Four Corners and the ABC's Middle East foreign correspondent. Sophie was twice awarded Australian Young TV Journalist of the Year and in 2010 won a Walkley for her investigation into the killing of five children in Afghanistan by Australian Special Forces soldiers. In 2015, she was nominated for a Walkley for her coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis. Sophie previously worked as a reporter for ABC's Foreign Correspondent and SBS's Dateline, and is a former host of triple j's current affairs program Hack. She is the author of We Can't Say We Didn't Know.
