Succession’s Brian Cox joins us before appearing at the festival to discuss his career built on getting under the skin of tyranny, and we’ll find out what it’s like to portray the colourful character of media mogul Logan Roy.
| | | | Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and Kiwi singer songwriter Marlon Williams join the panel on the week of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, to discuss ambition, power and who gets to tell stories.
Succession’s Brian Cox joins us before appearing at the festival to discuss his career built on getting under the skin of tyranny, and we’ll find out what it’s like to portray the colourful character of media mogul Logan Roy.
Kiwi singer-songwriter Marlon Williams is back on the road after two years’ lockdown in New Zealand – and has emerged with a new album that embraces his Māori heritage and plans for a Māori-language record.
Soprano, composer and educator Deborah Cheetham has been instrumental in amplifying the voices of Indigenous artists and is First Nations Chair at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
The power of storytelling is evident in the work of photojournalist Andrew Quilty, who’s spent more than a decade documenting the war in Afghanistan.
And former ADF officer Catherine McGregor has held positions of power in military and civilian life – and now champions veterans’ rights.
We’ll discuss all this, plus all the news of the week, and a special live performance from Marlon Williams.
Joining Stan Grant on the panel:
Brian Cox, Emmy Award-winning Scottish actor
Marlon Williams, Singer-songwriter
Deborah Cheetham, Artistic Director, Short Black Opera
Catherine McGregor, Author and Veterans' adviser
Andrew Quilty, Photojournalist and author
Please submit a question now via our website by 9am Thursday for the chance to ask the panel.
Scroll down to watch Thursday's toughest question asked by Brian Heath, who asked if Australia can still be considered the land of the ‘fair go’. 👇
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| | In 2021, Leigh Sales said Brian Cox's memoir "Putting the Rabbit in the Hat" contained a "brutal honesty that reads like you don't give a toss what anybody thinks of you”. | | MORE |
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| In 1997, Soprano Deborah Cheetham wrote the autobiographical play 'White Baptist Abba Fan", in which she explored the truth of her own identity living in a white, Baptist family as a Yorta Yorta woman. | | MORE |
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| Andrew Quilty had been living and working in Kabul as a photographer and journalist for more than eight years when the Taliban arrived at the gates of the city in 2021. | | MORE |
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| Brian asks the panel if the dream of 'a fair go' been lost? Catherine Marriott says "we really need to sharpen our pencil from a leadership perspective", and that closer attention needs to be paid to what the Australian people really want and need. | | WATCH |
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| | Katy Gallagher said last week's jobs and skill summit had been "incredibly successful", and rebuked Stuart Robert's claims that it had been "the most expensive press conference that the government's run". | | WATCH |
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| British philosopher A.C. Grayling and the Q+A panel discuss jobs, migrant workers, proposed stage three tax cuts and whether Australia is still the land of the 'fair go'. | | WATCH |
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