Forum for Writers, Journalists and Publishers
The NSW Writers' Centre is organising a forum on the evening of Tuesday, 29 November about the impact the new terror laws (in particular the sedition provisions) will have on writers, journalists and publishers.
NSW Writers' Centre is in the Rozelle Hospital Grounds, Balmain Road, Rozelle
(Enter the hospital from Balmain Road and follow the signs to the Centre.
Tuesday 29 November, 6pm - 8pm
The Café Bar will be open for refreshments from 5.30pm.
RSVP essential. Inquiries Irina Dunn.
Call (02) 9555 9757 or email nswwc@nswwriterscentre.org.au.
Free entry
Speakers include
LAWRENCE GIBBONS is the CEO of the Alternative Media Group Editor and
publisher of The Sydney City Hub, an independent progressive news weekly.
He has worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and other alternative
publications in New York, Toronto and Honolulu.
SYED ATIQ UL HASSAN is a senior journalist, a media writer and an active
community worker representing the South Asian community in Australia. He
founded and is editor-in-chief of Tribune International, the first
multicultural English (ethnic) newspaper in Australia.
JACK HERMAN is Executive Secretary of the Australian Press Council, the body
that deals with complaints about the Australian print media and acts to
maintain the traditional freedom of the press enjoyed by Australians.
PETER MANNING is adjunct professor of journalism at the University of
Technology, Sydney, and a former head of news and current affairs at both
the ABC and the Seven network.
CHRIS NASH is Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism,
Associate Professor in the UTS Faculty of Humanities¹ Journalism Program and
a Walkley Award winner.
ROBERT PULLAN is a freelance Sydney writer whose books include Guilty
Secrets (Pascal Press 1994) and Four Corners: 25 Years (ABC Books 1986). He
is writing The Press Gang, a history of the Australian press and is on the
Management Committee of the Australian Society of Authors.
NICK PARSONS is Chairman of Currency Press, the performing-arts publisher,
and a writer and director in film, television and theatre.
NSW Writers' Centre is in the Rozelle Hospital Grounds, Balmain Road, Rozelle
(Enter the hospital from Balmain Road and follow the signs to the Centre.
Tuesday 29 November, 6pm - 8pm
The Café Bar will be open for refreshments from 5.30pm.
RSVP essential. Inquiries Irina Dunn.
Call (02) 9555 9757 or email nswwc@nswwriterscentre.org.au.
Free entry
Speakers include
LAWRENCE GIBBONS is the CEO of the Alternative Media Group Editor and
publisher of The Sydney City Hub, an independent progressive news weekly.
He has worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and other alternative
publications in New York, Toronto and Honolulu.
SYED ATIQ UL HASSAN is a senior journalist, a media writer and an active
community worker representing the South Asian community in Australia. He
founded and is editor-in-chief of Tribune International, the first
multicultural English (ethnic) newspaper in Australia.
JACK HERMAN is Executive Secretary of the Australian Press Council, the body
that deals with complaints about the Australian print media and acts to
maintain the traditional freedom of the press enjoyed by Australians.
PETER MANNING is adjunct professor of journalism at the University of
Technology, Sydney, and a former head of news and current affairs at both
the ABC and the Seven network.
CHRIS NASH is Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism,
Associate Professor in the UTS Faculty of Humanities¹ Journalism Program and
a Walkley Award winner.
ROBERT PULLAN is a freelance Sydney writer whose books include Guilty
Secrets (Pascal Press 1994) and Four Corners: 25 Years (ABC Books 1986). He
is writing The Press Gang, a history of the Australian press and is on the
Management Committee of the Australian Society of Authors.
NICK PARSONS is Chairman of Currency Press, the performing-arts publisher,
and a writer and director in film, television and theatre.
