Journalist and proud Gamilaroi woman Brooke Boney will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on her new book All of It. Notes on public life, private joy and everything in between. A collection of witty and heartfelt essays about love, loss and ambition.

Brooke Boney has been in the public eye for well over a decade, first as a recognisable voice on triple j, and then as a recognisable face on The Today Show. All of It draws us into her world, as she writes with honesty, humour and empathy about everything from the downsides of having a public profile to the joys of owning dogs, from the various forms of love that make up a life - romantic, familial, platonic - to how that love has been sustained through generations of colonisation and violence, and from the concerns that are a part of your early thirties - fertility, ageing, career progression - to discovering what's actually worth fighting for.

As a journalist, Brooke knows how to write a story, and these are her most personal stories yet.

All of It made me feel so proud to be Brooke's friend. Powerful and moving writing.' Tony Armstrong

'Open, vulnerable, insightful, funny - All of It is truly all of it - and a brilliant read.' Jennifer Robinson

Brooke Boney is a journalist who started her media career as a political correspondent for SBS and then for NITV and the ABC before joining Nine's Today show in 2019. An extremely talented and versatile communicator, she also works as an MC, moderator, panellist and keynote speaker, with a huge passion for igniting discussion around Indigenous Affairs. Brooke is currently a Charlie Perkins Chevening Scholar studying a Masters of Public Policy at the University of Oxford.

Virginia Haussegger AM is an award winning journalist, broadcaster & former ABC News anchor in Canberra. Virginia is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and Deputy Chair of the media think-tank PIJI, the Public Interest Journalism Initiative. In 2019, Virginia was named ACT Australian of The Year, in recognition of her community leadership and women’s rights advocacy. Virginia’s book, Genderquake: is our feminist future written in the past?, will be published in October.

Harriet Elvin AM , who is currently undertaking an ANU MPhil after a distinguished career leading arts organisations, will give the vote of thanks.

Books are available for signing from 5.30pm and again after the event.

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