An Evening with Hiroki Iijima

Join us for an exciting evening as Hiroki Iijima chats to about his latest book, Living Rich Without Possessions – What Aboriginal Australians Teach Us. Hiroki will be in conversation with playwright, theatre director and translator, Roger Pulvers.

6pm arrivals for 6:30pm start.

Free to attend, but RSVP essential.



ABOUT THE BOOK:

Living Rich Without Possessions – What Aboriginal Australians Teach Us About True Happiness explores the wisdom of Australia’s Aboriginal peoples—believed to hold some of the oldest continuous knowledge systems on Earth. Living in harmony with nature and guided by the spiritual concept of “Dreaming,” they embrace a worldview that values sharing over owning, and live by the philosophy of being born with nothing and dying with nothing.

Based on the author’s long-term experiences and interviews with Aboriginal communities, the book highlights how their minimalist, communal way of life offers powerful lessons for modern Japanese society.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Hiroki Iijima is a journalist and former President of the Foreign Correspondents' Association of Australia. Born in 1965 in Yamanashi, Japan, he earned a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Wollongong and began his media career producing Japanese-language educational programs for local TV in Sydney. He served as bureau chief for TBS during the 2000 Sydney Olympics and continues to work as TBS's Sydney correspondent. Iijima has extensively covered Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island nations, conducting exclusive interviews with political leaders and public figures. In 2020, he produced the Japan-Australia-China co-production documentary Save the Reef – The Time to Act. His publications include the nonfiction book Australia: A Rising Nation, Japan: A Stagnating One (2022), the novel Island of Miracles (2019), and the Japanese translation of Uchinaanchu in Australia (2021).