Past Event

Launch of Two Futures by Clare O'Neil and Tim Watts

14th Aug 2015

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Presenter: Text Publishing Company
Website: https://www.textpublishing.com.au/
Event Duration: 90 minutes

What will Australia be like in 2040?

Will society be more unequal, the fair go long gone? What will drive economic growth? Will our democracy become ever more
fractious, or can we revitalise it? And how should we respond to the Digital Revolution, climate change and regional instability?

These questions are central to Australia’s future - and they’re urgent. Yet too often they get churned up in the spin cycle of
daily politics. Too little time is given to considering different ways in which we could address key issues in the decades ahead.

In this agenda-setting book Clare O’Neil and Tim Watts take the long view, identifying the dramatic changes looming on the
horizon and offering creative ideas for tackling them.

Fact-driven and progressive, optimistic and impassioned, Two Futures begins the national conversations we need to have.

‘A must-read publication from two talented federal members concerned about a better and fairer future for Australia.’ Steve Bracks

DOORS OPEN @ 5.30PM

About the Authors

Clare O’Neil is the federal Labor member for the seat of Hotham, in Melbourne’s south-east. She was Australia’s youngest female mayor and has been a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. She studied public policy as a Fullbright Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Tim Watts
is the federal Labor member for the seat of Gellibrand, in Melbourne’s west. Prior to entering parliament he was a senior manager at Telstra. He has been a lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jacques and studied at the London School of Economics.