John Pilger - Breaking Australia's Silence (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)

John Pilger addresses the 'great Australian silence', applying it not only to the treatment of Indigenous people but to class, great power and the limits of public debate.What are the 'unofficial truths' that are often unmentionable in Australian 'mainstream' debate? The treatment of First Nations people is often presented in stereotypes while the majority deny the rapacious past, and present. In matters of class, Australia's cultivated image of a 'land of fair go for all' increasingly falls victim to a corporatised world of widening inequality. The mythology of a proud, independent nation is challenged by the often secretive role of Australia as an appendage of the United States and the rise of militarism. In the wake of the release of his latest film, Utopia, John Pilger will be in conversation to discuss these 'unofficial truths'.John Pilger is an internationally renowned Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker. Liz Ann Macgregor is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art. She is a celebrated member of Australian cultural and public life, and in 2011 received an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honour list and the Australia Council Visual Arts Medal.John Pilger appears with the support of the Edward Said Memorial Lecture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.