Meet the author - David Solomon
About the event
David Solomon will be in conversation with Professor Andrea Carson on his memoir Footnotes, a first hand political, personal and historical commentary, including his experience of the Whitlam dismissal in 1975, and Sir John Kerr’s divulgences about his aspiration to be Prime Minister.
Footnotes is partly autobiographical, detailing with controversies over Anzac Day long before they made headlines, recounting times at ANU, the High Court and the Press Gallery, a brush with ASIO; and near misses with defamation suits, expulsion from Sydney University, even death.
Books will be available for signing from 6:30pm after the event.
‘The first chapter of Footnotes is the master at work: “A New Political and Electoral Landscape” covers Australia’s mightily shifting parliamentary line-ups over the past two elections. The insights are sharp, everything is evidenced and it still rattles along as a read.’
Andrew Fraser - Pearls and Irritations
About the speakers
David Solomon
Dr David Solomon AM is a former legal and political correspondent with degrees in Arts and Law and a Doctorate of Letters (ANU). He was Queensland Integrity Commissioner 2009-2014. He began his career in journalism on the Sunday Mirror in Sydney in 1962. After that he has worked as a political correspondent and columnist for such publications as The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Financial Review and The Courier Mail. His 11 books include The Political Impact of the High Court, The Making of an Australian Prime Minister (with Laurie Oakes) and Australia's Government and Parliament .
Professor Andrea Carson
Professor Andrea Carson is an internationally recognised scholar of political communication and Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism and a former section editor at the Age and producer of ABC radio and TV (7.30). Professor Carson is author of six books and many journal articles of Australian politics and political communication.
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