Greens, Teals and Ideals

Sat 13 May 2023

Esther Anatolitis + Tim Dunlop + Paddy Manning

Auditorium 1, slq

Main Festival

BWF082

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

The story of the 2022 Federal Election is unprecedented in Australian politics, with massive defections among Liberal voters frustrated by inaction on climate change to the emergent Teal bloc. With Labor forming government with the lowest primary vote in recent history, the landscape of Australian politics appears to have changed irrevocably, party loyalty superseded by the demands of informed, passionate voters. In Queensland, there was an inner-city ‘greenslide’. Paddy Manning (author of the insightful Saturday Paper piece ‘Inside Queensland’s Green wave’) and Tim Dunlop (author of a revealing book about the significance of the independents movement) discuss the paradigm shift in Australian politics and what this unusually exciting election bodes for the future. Supported by the Saturday Paper.

#Artists

Esther Anatolitis

Editor of Meanjin Esther Anatolitis is one of Australia’s leading advocates for arts and culture. With an arts and media leadership career spanning over two decades, Esther is Hon A/Prof at RMIT School of Art, a member of the National Gallery of Australia Governing Council, and Principal of creative consultancy Test Pattern. A prolific writer and commentator, her book Place, Practice, Politics was published in 2022.

Tim Dunlop

Tim Dunlop is a Melbourne-based writer. His four books are an ongoing argument with the status quo, taking on the tired ideas of the political class and offering a better way forward. His new book, Voices Of Us, examines the 2022 election and the emergence of independents as a new political force.

Paddy Manning

Paddy Manning is the author of several award-winning books, including biographies of Malcolm Turnbull and Nathan Tinkler. During almost twenty years in journalism he has worked for Crikey, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review and The Australian, and has won several awards for journalistic excellence. His book, Body Count, won the 2021 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction. His latest book is The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch.