Contributors to Griffith REVIEW 24: Participation Society discuss the importance of community, the need for new models of engagement, the impact of the recession, the internet and social entrepreneurship.
Following her distinguished career in politics, Cheryl Kernot is now the director of teaching and learning at the Centre for Social Impact based at UNSW. Her Griffith Review essay explores the need for new models of social, political and economic organisation. Leading social researcher Hugh Mackay is the author of 12 books, including his new novel Ways of Escape. Alan Attwood is an award-winning journalist and novelist who currently edits The Big Issue. Susan Varga is an author and co-founder of Rural Australians for Refugees; her new novel is Headlong. They explore the nature and importance of different forms of social and political participation.
SUSAN VARGA (LOCAL) SUSAN VARGA is the author of two prize-winning books, Heddy and Me and Happy Families, and Broometime with Anne Coombs. Her new novel is Headlong. She is also a community activist, co-founder of Rural Australians for Refugees.
ALAN ATTWOOD (INTERSTATE) ALAN ATTWOOD has had a long and varied career in which he has tended to specialise in not specialising. For 30 years as a journalist he covered such diverse events as the first free elections in South Africa, soccer in Northern Greece, political intrigue in Morocco, four Olympic Games and all four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. Between 1995 and 1998 he was the New York-based correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers. He won a Walkley Award for sports coverage in 1998. He is the author of two novels, one of which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He is currently the editor of The Big Issue.
HUGH MACKAY (LOCAL) HUGH MACKAY is a psychologist, social researcher and novelist. He has a Master’s degree in moral philosophy and was one of the founders of the St James Ethics Centre. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of NSW, Macquarie and Charles Sturt universities. For many years he wrote a weekly column for the Sun Herald and is often a guest columnist for the major dailies. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including Advance Australia...Where? and Winter Close.
JULIANNE SCHULTZ (LOCAL) JULIANNE SCHULTZ is the founding editor of Griffith REVIEW and a professor in the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University. She has written extensively about the media and is the author of Reviving the Fourth Estate: Democracy,Accountability and the Media, Steel City Blues and the librettos Black River and Going Into Shadows. She co-chaired the Creative Australia stream at the Australia 2020 Summit.
CHERYL KERNOT (LOCAL) CHERYL KERNOT is director of Teaching and Learning at the Centre for Social Impact at UNSW. Following her distinguished political career, Cheryl has spent the last five years working in the UK as a program director at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurs at the Said Business School at Oxford University and as the director of Learning at the School for Social Entrepreneurs in London. Her lead essay for Griffith REVIEW 24: Participation Society is called 'A Quiet Revolution’.
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