Join us for An Afternoon with Yanis Varoufakis and Friends, featuring Yanis Varoufakis, Dr Bob Brown, Professor Clare Wright, Hannah Ferguson and Dominic Guerrera.

In his most personal book yet, Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, Yanis Varoufakis tells the engrossing story of his political awakening. This captivating portrait is told through the extraordinary lives of five women, and the West's tumultuous history from 1924 to the present.

In his chapter in A Time for Bravery: What happens when Australia chooses courage?, he tells the story of Piero, a political refugee from Chile, using his story to urge governments to return to a time where we recognised the importance of taking in refugees.

In What’s the Big Idea?, Yanis explains why Australia must shed the fear of a larger state and Bob Brown discusses the ‘price of extinction’, how monetising the environment won’t save it, the corporate capture of democracy and the failure of the major parties to truly protect the environment.

Yanis Varoufakis will be joined by award-winning historian, author, broadcaster, podcaster and public commentator Professor Clare Wright for a panel discussion, hosted by the Australia Institute’s Director of International & Security Affairs, Dr Emma Shortis.

This will be preceded by a panel discussing culture, community, and the stories we tell, featuring environmentalist, doctor, campaigner, and former Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens, Dr Bob Brown. Bob is the founder of the Bob Brown Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that works to protect nature through direct action, legal defence, and science. He will be joined by Hannah Ferguson, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cheek Media Co., and Dominic Guerrera, Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna poet, writer, artist and curator, recipient of the 2021 Oodgeroo Noonuccal Indigenous Poetry Prize and 2024 David Unaipon Prize. This panel will be hosted by the Australia Institute’s Director of Strategic Partnerships, Noah Schultz-Byard.

Books from Australia Institute Press and the authors attending will be available for purchase at the venue. A book signing will follow the event.

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