Literary Dinner with the Honourable Tony Abbott AM

Friday 22 May 7pm

Members $74, Non Members $84 includes two-course dinner

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Tony Abbott served as Australia's 28th Prime Minister and was the member for Warringah in the Australian Parliament between 1994 and 2019. Abbott is a Rhodes Scholar and the author of three other books: The Minimal Monarchy, How to Win the Constitutional War and Battlelines. From 1998 to 2018, he convened the Pollie Pedal annual charity bike ride, which has supported organisations including Soldier On, Carers Australia and Wandering Warriors. Abbott surfs near Queenscliff and volunteers with the Davidson Rural Fire Brigade. In 2020 he was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia, and in 2022 he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. Currently, he is a director of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, is a visiting fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs and the Danube Institute and is a board director of FOX Corporation. At this exciting Literary Dinner Tony will discuss his book ‘Australia: A History’ and the themes, moments and people that made our nation.

ABOUT AUSTRALIA: A HISTORY

Australia is one of the world's great success stories: a land long hidden from outsiders, where - since 1788 - people from many backgrounds have built one of the freest, fairest and most prosperous countries on earth. This book is intended to give anyone interested - as every Australian should be - an account of our past that's positive, while not oblivious to our mistakes and imperfections as a nation. If to be an Australian is still to have won the lottery of life, the history that's produced us is surely something to savour. 'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative' – Geoffrey Blainey, Historian.

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