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Kate Grenville: Unsettled

What comes after an Acknowledgement of Country?

Kate Grenville (photo credit Darren James)
Thursday 22 May 2025
10-11am
Event Code: 23
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After the success of her two best known works, The Secret River, adapted for stage and television, and Restless Dolly Maunder, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Festival favourite Kate Grenville is still grappling with what it means to be a descendant of colonisation in Australia.

Journey through time and place with Kate as she reframes her family’s history in Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place, placing First People in the same picture. With Beejay Silcox.

What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?
Kate Grenville
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