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13 Feb 2019

April Berry Conversation Update

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2019 Conversations | 0

The April 7th Berry Conversation featuring Bruce Pascoe and Marie Munkara has been postponed until next year, with the date to be confirmed and announced in due course. However, we are delighted to announce that Lenore Taylor, the Walkley Award-winning Editor … Continued

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2 Feb 2019

Berry Conversation in April

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2019 Conversations, events | 0

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Bruce Pascoe is now not able to appear on April 7th in conversation with Marie Munkara. We are hopeful of finding an alternative date, which we will announce once new arrangements have been made. With apologies and best … Continued

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13 Jan 2019

Bruce Pascoe: our pre-colonial human and nature interface

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2019 Conversations, media | 0

Over the coming weeks, we will share with you some of the writings and insights of both Bruce Pascoe and Marie Munkara in preparation for our upcoming Berry Conversation on 7th April, 2019. As Tony Hughes-D’Aeth, Associate Professor, English and … Continued

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27 Dec 2018

Berry Conversations with Bruce Pascoe and Marie Munkara

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2019 Conversations | 0

We are delighted to announce that Bruce Pascoe, prize-winning author of Dark Emu: Aboriginal Agriculture and the Birth of Australia will be in conversation with Marie Munkara, award-winning author of Every Secret Thing and Of Ashes and Rivers That Run … Continued

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24 Dec 2018

A message from the organising committee

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2018 Conversations, media | 0

As 2018 draws to a close we wish to thank our friends, supporters, volunteers, and enthusiastic audience members for their continuing involvement with Berry Conversations. This year we heard two remarkable discussions—the first, … Continued

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4 Sep 2018

Berry Conversation Taster: Campaigner attacks nuclear inquiry’s credibility

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation 7.30 Report TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT Broadcast: 03/07/2006 Reporter: Kerry O’Brien KERRY O’BRIEN, PRESENTER: Twenty-five years ago, Australian doctor Helen Caldicott was one of the most powerful and compelling figures on America’s public stage. She founded a movement … Continued

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28 Aug 2018

If You Love this Planet: Dr Helen Caldicott

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2018 Conversations | 0

With our next Berry Conversation just weeks away, take some time to watch this Oscar®-winning short film that is comprised of a lecture given to students by our conversationalist, nuclear critic Dr. Helen Caldicott, president of Physicians for Social Responsibility in … Continued

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2 Jul 2018

Kerry O’Brien: It’s war on the ABC so fight

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2018 Conversations | 0

First published in The Australian 14 May 2018 by Stephen Brook Follow on Twitter: @ViscountBrooky Kerry O’Brien doesn’t miss television. And he doesn’t watch it particularly frequently. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have very strong words of advice for … Continued

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29 Jun 2018

Taster: A Desperate Passion

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2018 Conversations, events | 0

A Desperate Passion An Autobiography By Helen Broinowski CaldicottAs published in The Washington PostChapter One: Early Days When I was nineteen, I read a book that changed my life. It was a novel, barely read these days, called On the … Continued

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30 Apr 2018

September Conversation features Kerry O’Brien and Dr Helen Caldicott

by Wendy Firth | posted in: 2018 Conversations | 0

Kerry O’Brien, one of Australia’s most distinguished journalists and Dr Helen Caldicott, physician and noted anti-nuclear campaigner, will appear together in a Berry Conversation on Sunday, September 16 at the Berry Public School Hall. Winner of six Walkley Awards, including … Continued

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