This ticket provides admission to all three Love and Rage Journal panels.

What is not do be done? - 12:00 - 13:30

Panel discussion moderated by Daniel Lopez.
With guests Colleen Bolger, Tim Kennedy, Tom Ballard and Jeff Sparrow. Presented by Jacobin Australia.

After two years of Labor government, workers and unions still face low wages, insecure jobs and a notoriously hostile industrial relations regime. Renters and homeowners still face skyrocketing rents, mortgage repayments and housing prices. And we all face the consequences of decades of neoliberalism, under-funded social services and an approaching climate catastrophe. Whatever the left has been doing, it’s clear that it’s not working. So maybe it’s time to ask the question: what is not to be done?

A Knife Fight in a Phone Booth? The Stakes of Australian Literary Criticism - 14:30 - 16:00

Panel discussion moderated by Jonathan Dunk.
With guests Evelyn Araluen, Jeanine Leane, Elias Grieg, Hasib Hourani. Presented by Overland.

In the 1970s when John Forbes sardonically described the discourse of Australian poetry as a knife fight in a phone booth, invoking an absurd disparity between the significance of the territory being contested and the viciousness of the struggle— he coined an indelible phrase often since invoked as a talisman against the volatilities of debate. But where the ‘Poetry Wars’ of Forbes’ caricature were fought over relatively superficial questions of formal experiment and American influence, heated literary arguments today often hinges on culture, gender, and authenticity. In this panel three leading writers and critics will discuss the consequences of misrepresentation, and the importance of politically committed criticism.

We are operating this event on a pay-as-you-feel basis. All money raised through ticket sales will be donated to Pay the Rent and the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network.

The suggested ticket price for this afternoon ticket is $15