
This Sporting Life
John Tague + Peter Doherty + Aaron Fa'Aoso
The Edge Auditorium, slq
Main Festival
BWF104
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Anyone for tennis? How about cricket? And football? With this panel it's game on. Sport has long been inextricable from national identity, and there are few places in which this synergy is more pronounced than Australia. Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty, novelist Inga Simpson and screen and football legend Aaron Fa'Aoso discuss their sporting new booksand reveal what our fixation on athletics reveals about our psychology.
#Artists
John Tague
John Tague is Managing Editor of Griffith Review.
Peter Doherty
Peter Doherty shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for discovering the nature of the cellular immune defence. Based at the University of Melbourne, he continues to be involved in research directed at understanding and preventing the severe consequences of influenza virus infection. He has published six books for general readers, including the bestselling The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize. His latest book is Empire, War, Tennis and Me.
Aaron Fa'Aoso
Aaron Fa’Aoso is a Torres Strait Islander film producer, director, screenwriter and actor. He is known for his roles in RAN: Remote Area Nurse, East West 101, The Straits, Black Comedy, and as the presenter of Strait to the Plate and Going Places with Ernie Dingo. Aaron is the executive director of his own film and television production company, Lone Star, which created the documentary series Blue Water Empire, about the history of the Torres Strait Islands. Aaron is a board member of Screen Queensland and belongs to several government and not-for-profit advisory committees. He holds a Masters Degree of Film Business from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.















