ANU Experience: Stan Grant On Identity

Stan Grant will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on Stan's new books On Identity and Australia Day. Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. Stan argues that it is time to leave identity behind and to embrace cosmopolitanism. On Identity is a meditation on hope and community.

Stan Grant is a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man. A journalist since 1987, he has worked for the ABC, SBS, CNN, the Seven Network and Sky News Australia. In 2015 Talking to My Country won the Walkley Book Award and Stan also won a Walkley Award for his coverage of Indigenous affairs. In 2016 he was appointed to the Referendum Council on Indigenous Recognition. Stan is now Professor of Global Affairs at Griffith University and International Affairs Analyst at ABC.

Mark Kenny was appointed Senior Fellow at the Australian Studies Institute ANU in January 2019 after a high-profile journalistic career culminating in six years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times. He is a regular on the ABC's Insiders program, Sky News Agenda, and radio programs across the country.

Book signings at before and after the event by Harry Hartog Bookshop.

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