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Next date: Saturday, 23 May 2026 | 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
Jon Sopel, Nick Bryant and Rosalind Dixon live-streamed on our big screen as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival.
Please note: This is a live-streamed event. No presenters will be at Castlemaine Library.
The Future of Democracy series, hosted by Nick Bryant and Rosalind Dixon, is a collaboration between Sydney Writers’ Festival and the Resilient Democracy Lab at UNSW Sydney.
We used to take honourable institutions, humans rights protections and freedom of speech for granted. With autocratic regimes on the rise around the world, these things are no longer guaranteed, even as the the value and importance of democracy becomes stark.
In this discussion, journalist and writer Jon Sopel (UnPresidented: Politics, Pandemics and the Race that Trumped All Others) joins co-hosts Nick Bryant (The Forever War) and Rosalind Dixon (The People's Guide to the Australian Constitution) to consider the impact of President Donald Trump on democracy and how to withstand the forces eroding democracies worldwide, from the rule of tech broligarchs to the autocratic superpowers.
Join Jon in conversation with Nick and Rosalind.
BOOKINGS REQUIRED
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Castlemaine Library, 212 Barker St, Castlemaine, 3450, View Map
212 Barker St , Castlemaine 3450
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