‘It Won’t Last’: Celebrating 30 Years of Melbourne’s Left
Description
At the opening of the bookshop in Trades Hall in 1996, notable guests leaving the event were heard to say ‘it won’t last’.
Three decades on, join Dennis Altman (Righting My World), Jeff Sparrow (Somewhere Here the Future’s Hid) and Danae Bosler as they discuss what’s changed and what’s stayed the same for the bookshop, Trades Hall and Melbourne’s left. Moderated by Leigh Hubbard.
Lineup
Dennis Altman
Dennis Altman AM is the author of numerous books, including Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, which has been described as the first serious analysis to emerge from the gay liberation movement. He is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow and Professorial Fellow in the Institute for Human Security at La Trobe University. In 2008, Dennis was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia for service to education as an academic, social and political commentator, to the community through raising awareness of human-rights issues and to the development of HIV/AIDS policy. He is a patron of the Australian Queer Archives and the Pride Foundation.
Jeff Sparrow
Dr Jeff Sparrow is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. He is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley Award-winning journalist, a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR and a past editor of Overland literary journal. His books include No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson, Communism: A Love Story, 12 Rules for Strife (with Sam Wallman) and Radical Melbourne: A Secret History and Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within (with Jill Sparrow). He is the co-editor (with Antony Loewenstein) of Left Turn: Essays for the New Left, and his most recent book is Provocations: New and Selected Writing.
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