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resilience

Sleepwalking to the future

Why Australia needs a cultural policy. Australia is surrounded by a world in transformation but is refusing to face up to it. Neo-liberalism is collapsing around us. Manufacturing and mining are in decline, with agriculture a minor sector. Culture has, at the federal level, been reduced to a rump...

The Joy MacLennan Oration: Resilience

In wide-ranging discussion with Julianne Siggins from Anglicare, and members of the audience, Anne Deveson explores the idea of resilience, from her own personal experience in her family, as well as her long career in journalism, writing and film-making. What does resilience actually mean? How can you develop it?...