Scribe at Canberra Writers Festival 2022

After a two year hiatus, Canberra Writers Festival is back! See some of our authors on panels around this year’s theme, ‘Power Passion Politics’.

Book your tickets now to see Stephen Charles (Keeping Them Honest), Jenny Hocking (The Palace Letters), Katrina Marson (Legitimate Sexpectations), Jeff Sparrow (Crimes Against Nature), and Veronica Gorrie (Black and Blue) in action.

See the full list of our authors’ events below.

13 August

12.00pm: Stephen Charles | Grilling the democracy sausage
12.00pm: Jenny Hocking | Comrade — it’s time again!
2.00pm: Katrina Marson | Breaking the silence
4.00pm: Jeff Sparrow | No country for farmers

14 August

2.00pm: Veronica Gorrie | You can take the person out of the Country...
4.00pm: Jeff Sparrow | Crimes against nature
6.30pm: Veronica Gorrie | Closing Night — Light bulb moment

Keeping Them Honest

**A revealing and compelling case for the establishment of a strong national anti-corruption body and the enactment of other vital democratic reforms.**

Over the last few years, instances of the federal government spending taxpayers’ money to gain improper political advantage in elections have continued, with many hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on the Community Sport Infrastructure Program (aka the Sports Rorts) and the Urban Congestion Fund (the Carpark Rorts). As Stephen Charles writes, these electorally targeted pork-barrelling exercises are better understood as political corruption, which…

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The Palace Letters

**A political betrayal.**
**A constitutional crisis.**
**A hidden correspondence.**
Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 proved tumultuous after 23 years of conservative government in Australia. After a second election victory in May 1974, when a hostile Senate refused to vote on his 1975 budget, the political deadlock that ensued culminated in Whitlam’s unexpected and deeply controversial dismissal by the governor-general, Sir John Kerr.
Kerr was in close touch with the Palace during this period, but, under the cover of being designated as personal, that correspondence was locked away…

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Legitimate Sexpectations

**Can we promise future generations a life free of sexual violence, in which their sexual wellbeing will be protected? Is this a promise we can keep?**
As a sexual offences prosecutor, Katrina Marson works for an institution that can only respond, one case at a time, to sexual violence once the damage is already done. During a decade of looking back, she kept returning to a single question: what could have been done to prevent this?
In 2019 she stepped out of the justice system to travel abroad on a Churchill Fellowship, where she witnessed first-hand the power of comprehensive relationships and sexuality…

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Crimes Against Nature

A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis, which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action.
*Crimes Against Nature* uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming — the one in which we are all to blame — and inverts it, to show how, again and again, pollution and ecological devastation have been imposed on the population without our consent and (often) against our will. From histories of…

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Black and Blue

WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS WRITING
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DOUGLAS STEWART PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
**The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force.**
A proud Gunai/Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply compromised law-enforcement system, Gorrie signed up for training to become one of a rare few Aboriginal police…

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Black and Blue

Veronica Gorrie

RRP: $37.99 Pub date: 30 Mar 2021 Category: Memoirs Cover view

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The Palace Letters

Jenny Hocking

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 27 Oct 2020 Category: Biography: historical, political & military Cover view

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Crimes Against Nature

Jeff Sparrow

RRP: $32.99 Pub date: 2 Nov 2021 Category: Climate change Cover view

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Legitimate Sexpectations

Katrina Marson

RRP: $32.99 Pub date: 2 Aug 2022 Category: Family & relationships Cover view

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Keeping Them Honest

Stephen Charles Catherine Williams

RRP: $32.99 Pub date: 29 Mar 2022 Category: Central government Cover view

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