Lunch Hour Talks
26 March Lunch Hour Talk
Speaker: Natalie Conyer
Topic: Present Tense
When South Africa moved from apartheid to majority rule, locally produced crime fiction became extremely popular. Why was this? What does crime fiction have to say about the new South Africa, and how does it deal with real-life crime there? Natalie Conyer will talk about why she chose to write about South Africa and the challenges she faced in doing so.
Natalie was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa but now lives in Sydney. Her debut crime novel, ‘Present Tense’, is set in Cape Town. Her short stories have won several awards in the Scarlet Stiletto competition run by Sisters in Crime Australia.
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27 February lunch hour talk
Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng
A Long Way from No Go
Indigenous writer Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng has written a moving and disturbing book about how she was dismissed from her role as a senior public servant during the Howard Government. She had blown the whistle on a false claim which had led to the Government’s controversial policy, The Intervention, which sent the army into Aboriginal communities.
