Sydney Writers' Festival 2008 - Online Program
Re-imagining Australia
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Writer Chris Wallace and photojournalist Megan Lewis explore Australian symbolism and imagery, examining how artists, audiences and policy will shape a new way of seeing the land, peoples and history of the nation. The panellists speak from an essay in Griffith REVIEW 19: Re-imagining Australia and the new book Conversations with the Mob.

Copresented with the Historic Houses Trust (HHT) as part of trustwords and Griffith REVIEW.

Panel  |  Culture & Heritage, History, Indigenous
Participants
Megan Lewis, Christine Wallace, Julianne Schultz (facilitator)

When
Thursday, May 22 2008
13:00 - 14:00

Where
The Mint
10 Macquarie Street
Sydney
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Cost
Free
Limited venue capacity.

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MEGAN LEWIS (INTERSTATE)Lewis, Megan
Megan Lewis, an award winning photographer, was born and raised in rural New Zealand.

At the age of 21, she moved to Sydney and was employed by Reuters. During that time Megan’s work regularly appeared in various international publications including the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune and a front cover of Time Magazine.

In early 1998, Megan was lured by The Australian to their Perth bureau, where she continued to cover national and international stories including the Tampa crisis, Queen Elizabeth’s tour of Australia, riots in Indonesia and the first tremors of Indonesia’s bid for independence.

In July 2002, on a gut feeling and with an invitation from the Martu people, Megan left The Australian to live full-time in the Great Sandy Desert. The result of this five year privilege is Conversations with the Mob, whose images won a 2005 Walkley Award.

Megan is now based in Perth, working as a freelance photographer. During her career Megan has worked in many challenging locations and situations. She has photographed all manner of people – from the most exalted to the most destitute. She remains an optimist.

Megan Lewis’ participation in Sydney Writers’ Festival is supported by UWA Press.

www.meganlewis.com.au

also appearing at...
146: Women Going Bush
221: Conversations with the Mob

CHRISTINE WALLACE (LOCAL)
Christine Wallace is a Canberra-based writer whose most recent book is The Private Don. She has spent more than 20 years in and around federal politics including a long stint in the Canberra press gallery where she worked for media outlets including The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Business Review Weekly and ABC TV. She is currently the editor of Breakfast Politics. Her essay 'Clean, Orderly and Laminex-coloured' appears in Griffith REVIEW 19: Re-imagining Australia.

also appearing at...
309: Investigative Journalism

JULIANNE SCHULTZ (LOCAL)Schultz, Julianne
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.

also appearing at...
62: Dying Words
92: Cities on the Edge
146: Women Going Bush
340: Stories from the Dustbin
180: What Lies Beneath
252: The Assimilation Agenda