Duration
1h 13m 15s
Beyond Extreme: Tariq Ali in conversation with Robert Manne (Bendigo Writers Festival 2015)
“Democracy is in serious trouble …” So begins Tariq Ali in his confronting new book, The Extreme Centre, challenging citizens and governments to ensure freedom and equality across the world. Australia, Ali says, “specialises in battery-farming politicians of a provincial cast with impressive regularity … citizens deserve better.”
In this Bendigo Writers Festival 2015 keynote event, in collaboration with the La Trobe University Ideas and Society program, the British Pakistani writer and filmmaker joins Emeritus Professor Robert Manne to discuss why democracy is under siege and what can be done to restore it.
Bendigo, August 2015
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