Tuesday November 4

A conversation with

Bob Brown

Maleny Community Centre

6 for 6.30pm, tickets $27.50 and $19.20 for students

Bookings essential

SOLD OUT

What to say? Only that it is an immense privilege to have Bob Brown come to Maleny for a conversation!

For half a century, Bob has been standing up to the powerful interests who would put profit before planet. In this new collection of stories, Defiance, he draws on this experience to inspire a new generation of individual and collective action.

He reflects on the people and places that have shaped him, celebrates the irreplaceable beauty and value of nature and shares what motivates him to keep fighting. He considers the challenges facing nature’s defenders – hostile corporate lobbyists, vilification in the press, the powerful pull of consumerism – and shows how courage, persistence and community can defeat them all.

Told with Brown’s trademark warmth and humour, these stories will galvanise, uplift and inspire.

Bob Brown is an environmental and social justice campaigner and former senator. A founding member of the Wilderness Society, from 1978 he led the successful campaign against the construction of the Franklin Dam. He served in Tasmanian state parliament for a decade, was leader of the Australian Greens, and in 1996 was elected to the federal Senate. His books include Memo for a Saner World and Optimism. After retiring from the Senate in 2012, he established the Bob Brown Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation supporting environmental causes.

He will be in conversation with Steven Lang

Tuesday November 11

A conversation with

Hugh Mackay

Maleny Community Centre

6 for 6.30pm, tickets $27.50 and $19.20 for students

Bookings essential

Hugh Mackay has been described as ‘the man who explains us to ourselves’. He is a social psychologist par excellence and the bestselling author of twenty-five books, including The Way We Are and The Kindness Revolution, both of which he came to Maleny to speak about previously. He had a sixty-year career in social research and was for thirty years a weekly newspaper columnist. 

In recognition of his pioneering work, he has been awarded honorary doctorates by five Australian universities. In 2016 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia.   

 His new book, Just Saying, contains a series of highly personal reflections on twenty-five quotations from some of the world’s greatest thinkers and writers, from Confucius and Plato to Susan Sontag and Miles Franklin; from Samuel Johnson and Mary Wollstonecraft to Bertrand Russell and Gloria Steinem.

Interpreting our world and inspiring us to do better, Mackay explores themes ranging from kindness and humility to power and prejudice; from gender equality to ethnic diversity; from coping with change to the damage inflicted on ourselves by revenge, and the great gulf between propriety and virtue.

He will be in conversation with Steven Lang.

We are extremely grateful for the support of the Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation