Frank Bongiorno on Dreamers and Schemers
Frank Bongiorno + Paul Barclay
Auditorium 2, slq
Main Festival
BWF066
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
From great men of history to skeletons in the closet, this opus by Frank Bongiorno considers the Dreamers and Schemers who have made modern Australia. Scrupulously researched and perspicacious, Bongiorno’s book navigates the distance between battler and bureaucrat, the machinations by which national identity and nationhood are formed, and the results of these grandiose visions.
#Artists
Frank Bongiorno
Frank Bongiorno is a Canberra-based historian who teaches at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Sex Lives of Australians: A History, The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia and Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia.
Paul Barclay
Paul Barclay is an Walkley Award-winning journalist and broadcaster who spent over 30 years at the ABC. Most recently he was presenter and producer of Big Ideas on ABC Radio National.
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