9:45 – 10:30am

Presented by Hugh Mackay
Moderator: Danielle Binks

Social psychologist Hugh Mackay AO pioneered the Ipsos Mackay Report, a seminal research tool to gauge the ‘mind and mood’ of Australia that is used to this day. Here, he examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future. Are we ready for gender equality? What legacy have the Boomers left us? Is poverty everyone’s problem? Sit in for this essential briefing from a national treasure.

Please note: Seating is unallocated. 

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Hugh Mackay

Hugh Mackay AO is a social psychologist and the bestselling author of 24 books, including nine novels. His latest non-fiction is The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening. he has had a 60-year career in social research and is a former deputy chair of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Moderator: Danielle Binks

Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based writer and literary agent with Jacinta di Mase Management. She is the author of bestselling middle-grade book The Year the Maps Changed, and the award-winning young adult books; Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology as well as The Monster of Her Age. Her latest middle grade novel is Six Summers of Tash and Leopold. Danielle also teaches Fiction & YA Writing in the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at her alum, RMIT University.