Upcoming Events
Clunes Booktown Festival, 23-24 March
https://www.clunesbooktown.com.au/
Panel: Do Your Own Thing
Saturday 23rd March 10am (venue: Attitude)
Alex Ettling, Bradley Shaw, Helen Bodycomb and Mike Mullins unpick what it takes to be one’s own publisher. They outline the pathways, from turning those boxes in the garage into a (sellable) archive, through publishing one’s own book, to building a boutique publishing house with Suzanne Donisthorpe making sense of it all.
https://tickets.clunesbooktown.com.au/Events/Do-Your-Own-Thing
Panel: Queering The Conversation
12pm, Saturday (venue: Courthouse)
Since the gay liberation movement of the 70s, there’s been an explosion of diverse LGBTIQA+ voices across our cultural landscape. Jess Ho (Raised by Wolves: A Memoir with Bite), Graham Willett (Living Out Loud) and Sam Elkin (Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga) discuss LGBTIQA+ memoir, narrative-nonfiction and collective histories of struggle against oppression. Chaired by Kate Hall.
https://tickets.clunesbooktown.com.au/Events/Queering-the-Conversation
Panel: Politics, Pleasure and Stigma: Drinking in Australia
3pm Saturday (Clunes Town Hall)
Bill Garner moderates a discussion between Alex Ettling, Sarah MacLean and Richard Gilbert about the ways that booze has shaped our lives.
https://tickets.clunesbooktown.com.au/Events/Politics-Pleasure-and-Stigma-Drinking-in-Australia
Panel: Making Queer History
Sunday 2.15pm, Clunes Courthouse
Michael Earp, Wayne Murdoch and Ange Bailey discuss the value of records being collected, conserved, transmitted and controlled by the folk whose actions and memories informed those records, with Dennis Altman in the chair.
https://tickets.clunesbooktown.com.au/Events/Making-Queer-History
Launch Events:
The Radical Jewish Tradition: Revolutionaries, resistance fighters and firebrands.
Melbourne launch
Saturday 2 March 2 pm:
Balit-mil (Formerly Meeting Room 1), Trades Hall
Speakers: Janey, Esther Singer (Loud Jew Collective), Donny (by video). MC Graham Willett
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/625718863017205/
Book a free ticket: https://www.trybooking.com/COZRU
Sydney launch
Friday 8 March 6 pm:
Newtown Neighbourhood Centre
Book a free ticket: https://www.trybooking.com/COWUK
Speakers: Janey, Donny (by video), Peter Slezak (Independent Jewish Voices)
Endorsed by Jews Against the Occupation ’48, Sydney Uni Staff BDS group and Tzedek.
Sydney book signing at The Bookshop Darlinghurst
Saturday 9 March 11.30 am
Sydney post rally gathering
Sunday 10 March
Venue and time tbc
Canberra launch
Friday 22 March 6 pm:
Auditorium, RSSS Building, ANU
Book a free ticket: https://www.trybooking.com/CPCTQ
Speakers: Janey, Donny (by video), Rick Kuhn, MC Eris
Melbourne Marxism Conference
venue tbc
Talk: Socialists, communists, Bundists and Zionists: Jews on the left in the 1930s
https://www.marxismconference.org/.../bundism-socialist...
For information and tickets: https://www.marxismconference.org/about
Melbourne forum hosted by Solidarity
Thursday 4 April 6.30 pm
Kathleen Syme, 251 Faraday Street, Carlton.
Contact: David Glanz
Sydney forum hosted by Solidarity
Thursday 11 April 6.00 pm
Brown Street Library , Newtown
Contact person: Ian Rintoul
Perth forum hosted by Socialist Alternative
Tuesday 16 April
Details: tbc
Contact: Alexis Vassiley
Past Events
Hobart Book Launch: Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia
6pm, Saturday 3 February 2024
Venue: TBC
Speakers: Anthony Morgan, Jessica Munday, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Jon Clark, Alex Ettling
Brisbane Book Launch: Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia
6pm, Saturday 11 November 2023
Venue: House Conspiracy, Brisbane, Queensland
Speakers: Anne Richards, Anne Jones, Dan O'Neill, Alex Ettling and MC: John Willsteed
Register for your free ticket:
https://www.trybooking.com/CLSRQ
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Broken Hill Book Launch: Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia
5.30pm, Wednesday 15 November 2023
Broken Hill City Library
Speaker: Alex Ettling
Canberra Book Launch: Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia
6.30pm, Thursday 23 November 2023
Badger & Co - Uni Pub, Health & Well-being Centre, 156-11 Joplin Lane, Australian National University. Light refreshments provided.
Speakers: Diane Kirby, Jeff Sparrow, Alex Ettling, MC: Lisa Milner
Conference details: https://www.labourhistory.org.au/asslh-2023-conference/
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Sydney Book Launch: Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia
6pm, Friday 1 December 2023
Sydney Trades Hall (Atrium), 383 Sussex Street
Speakers: Gary Foley, Wendy Bacon, Ken Davis and Terry Irving, MC: Alex Ettling
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Melbourne Book Launch: Knocking The Top Off: A People’s History of Alcohol in Australia
4pm, Saturday 9 December 2023
John Curtin Hotel, 29 Lygon Street Carlton
Speakers: Gary Foley, Julie Kimber, Jeff Sparrow and Iain McIntyre
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Sydney Book Launch: New Theatre
The people, plays and politics behind Australia's radical theatre
Sydney New Theatre, 542 King Street, Newtown
Speakers: Lisa Milner (book editor), Rosane McNamara (President Sydney New Theatre), Laura Ginters (book contributor)
Date/Time:6:30pm Tuesday 18 October
Music and play reading performance by Sydney New Theatre
The event is free but you must RSVP to publicity@newtheatre.org.au
This event is part of Sydney New Theatre’s celebration of its 90th anniversary. You are invited to come along and join in the book launch and celebration with us. Light refreshments provided and first glass of wine included. Subsequent drinks at the bar. The book will be available at a discount price of $35 for one copy or $150 for 5 copies (RRP $40 each).
Melbourne Book Launch: New Theatre
The people, plays and politics behind Australia's radical theatre
Meeting room 1, Trades Hall, Melbourne
Date/Time:9 November, 6.00 for 6.30 pm
In person and online event.
Speakers: Lisa Milner, Cathy Brigden
Singer: Bruce Watson
Open mic "Yarns from the New Theatre" including Margret Roadknight
The event is free but you must register:
In person
Online
Coffs Harbour Book Launch: New Theatre
The people, plays and politics behind Australia's radical theatre
Auditorium, Sawtell Surf Life Saving Club, Coffs Harbour
Date/Time:4 December 2.00 pm
In person event.
Speakers: Lisa Milner, Janey Stone
Music and refreshments
Free event but you must register here
Book Launch: The Crime of not knowing your Crime
Postponed due to border restrictions and covid, we are finally able to present a Perth event for Karen Throssell’s book. It is a great privilege to be able to hold this event at the Katherine Suzannah Pritchard Writers’ Centre, the place where Karen’s grandmother lived and which figures in the book.
Speakers: Karen Throssell, Janet Holmes A Court and Phil Deery
Karen Throssell is an award-winning writer and poet, with five poetry collections and a book of creative non-fiction. An earlier version of The Crime of not knowing your Crime was shortlisted in 2017 for the Dorothy Hewett award for works of creative non-fiction. Her work reflects her commitment to radical politics, literature and feminism.
Phillip Deery is a Cold War historian. His books include Sparrows and Spies: ASIO and the Cold War in Australia, 1949-1975 (2022). He is an Emeritus Professor of History at Victoria University.
Janet Holmes à Court AC is owner of the Janet Holmes à Court Collection and has many roles in culture and the arts. She has strong links to Karen and KSP House. She used to be the 'playmate' that Katharine called in when the family were visiting the West.
Anyone interested in KSP or the writing of politically influenced literature in Australia is welcome to attend. Attendance is free but please RSVP to info@interventions.org.au for catering purposes.
The book will be on sale at the event at a special discount price.
Book Launch: Hell No! We Wont Go!
Postwar resistance to conscription in Australia by Bobbie Oliver
Date/Time: 5.00 - 6.30 pm Friday 22 April
Location: Latrobe University Bendigo Campus, Gallery space, LSU building
Speakers: Michael Hamel-Green and Bobbie Oliver
Singer: Ken Mansell
Book Launch: Rebel Women
Edited by Sandra Bloodworth and Tom O'Lincoln
Date/Time: 1.30 – 2.00 pm Saturday 16 April
Location: Maritime Precinct, Williamstown
Speakers: Janey Stone, Sandra Bloodworth and Liz Ross
We are delighted to announce the launch details for the new edition of Rebel Women. Come along, get to hear from the editor Sandra Bloodworth and contributors Liz Ross and Janey Stone, and buy your copy! The launch will be at the Marxism conference in Melbourne at 1.30 pm on Saturday 16 April.
All are welcome to attend the launch which is free, but we encourage you to consider buying a ticket to the conference itself. If you do, you will be able to come to this session on Friday 15 April at 2.30 pm when Liz Ross will talk about Fighting back in the Depression, based on the chapter in the book.
Book Launch: Hell No! We Wont Go!
Postwar resistance to conscription in Australia by Bobbie Oliver
Date/Time: 5.00 6.30 pm Friday 22 April
Location: Latrobe University Bendigo Campus, Gallery space, LSU building
Speakers: Michael Hamel-Green and Bobbie Oliver
Singer: Ken Mansell
Join us in the in-person launch of this book about conscientious objectors in post war Australia.
"Historian Bobbie Oliver has written an absorbing, readable, and meticulously documented account of the principled and courageous stands against conscription, militarism, and unjust wars on the part of young conscientious objectors and draft resisters during the decades after WWII. It is particularly insightful in showing how such stands contributed to the wider movement to end Australia's 1965-1972 intervention in Vietnam, an indefensible war which cost over 500 Australian lives and more than a million (mainly civilian) Vietnamese lives; and inspirational in its stories of those across Australia who were prepared to confront militarism and coercive systems designed to prosecute such unjust wars."
-- Michael Hamel-Green, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University
"A welcome, robust and moving antidote to the officially sanctioned and manipulated martial enthusiasms that course through Australian society and culture."
-- Rowan Cahill, radical historian, author, educator
This event is part of the conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in Bendigo. The book event is free and public - you don't need to be registered for the conference to attend.
Passionate Friends
Book Launch
Date: Thursday 3 March
Hell No! We Won't Go!
Online Book Launch
Date: Thursday 24 February
Watch the recording of the book launch here.
The Crime of Not Knowing Your Crime:
Ric Throssell Against ASIO
Online Book Launch
Date: Monday 26 July
