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Robert Manne

City of Sydney Library

Friday, 18 May 2012 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)

Sydney, New South Wales

Robert Manne

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What happens if a newspaper goes rogue? In {Bad News}, academic and public intellectual Robert Manne examines {The Australian}, Rupert Murdoch’s lead political voice, and the way it shapes national debate through campaigns and its endless pursuit of its enemies and critics.


Robert Manne is professor of politics at La Trobe University and a regular contributor to the Monthly. His recent books include Quarterly Essay 43, Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation, Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency, Goodbye to All That: On the Failure of Neo-liberalism and the Urgency of Change (ed.) and W.E.H. Stanner: The Dreaming and Other Essays (ed.).

 

 A Sydney Writers' Festival event

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Customs House Library
George Street
Sydney, New South Wales 2000
Australia

Friday, 18 May 2012 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM (EST)


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