Event_
In Conversation with The Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP
Nov 23, 2020 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
AEDT
Join Professor Greg Whitwell, The Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP (plus book contributors Annabel Crabb and Professor Rae Cooper AO ) as we launch and discuss an important new book Upturn: A better normal after COVID-19 (NewSouth, Nov 2020) with a focus on gender equality in work and care in Australia plus where we go next as a society after COVID19.
In this book The Hon.Tanya Plibersek MP brings together many of the country's most interesting thinkers who imagine a better Australia and through their chapters provide a compelling vision for a stronger economy, a fairer society and a more environmentally sustainable future.
Cost
Complimentary
Format
60 minutes - Guest speaker and Panel discussion with audience Q&A (Prior questions can be directed to www.slido.com using the event code #UPTURN)
Moderator
Professor Greg Whitwell, Dean of The University of Sydney Business School
Panellists
TANYA PLIBERSEK MP is the federal Shadow Minister for Education and Training. She served as Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2019, and has served as Member for Sydney since 1998. She was a Cabinet Minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
ANNABEL CRABB is an ABC presenter and writer who has covered Australian politics for 20 years. She is the author of The Wife Drought, a best-selling account of women and work in Australia. Her Quarterly Essay about Malcolm Turnbull, Stop at Nothing, won a Walkley Award and was expanded and republished as Stop at Nothing: The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull. Her most recent book is Men at Work: Australia’s parenthood trap.
RAE COOPER AO is Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations and is based in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies. She is Co-Director of the Women, Work and Leadership Research Group, an Editor of the Journal of Industrial Relations, and a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Labor and Employment Relations Association.
Book Description
Upturn: A better normal after COVID-19 (NewSouth, Nov 2020), Edited by Tanya Plibersek
COVID-19 has resulted in changes none of us could have imagined, but what happens next?
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on evictions; impossible to offer wages subsidies and definitely impossible to get Australians to stay home from the beach and the pub. But we did it.
In Upturn Tanya Plibersek brings together some of the country's most interesting thinkers who are ready to imagine a better Australia, and to fight for it. It is a compelling vision for a stronger economy, a fairer society and a more environmentally sustainable future.