Now on bbc news, Zeinab Badawi talks to australian writer Thomas Keneally on hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, where i have come to manly, in sydney, australia, to talk to one of the worlds most distinguished authors, Thomas Keneally. He has written more than 30 novels, including his most famous, Schindlers Ark, which was made into an 0scar winning film, schindlers list. Now in his 80s, as he reflects on modern day australia. Does he believe it is a country that has matured in its identity, or is it still divided on race and culture . Thomas keneally, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You have written about a huge range of topics the american civil war, australia, of course, the first world war, joan of arc, napoleon. How do you go about choosing a subject for a book . Well, its generally some weird connection with australia that begins me, in that i heard that there was a family on saint helena who knew napoleon, and then they got so close to napoleon that they fell out of favour a
Foundation and ive been travelling for 20 years and i think one of the things that has shocked me as ive been on the ground in so many Different Countries in africa and all over the world is that abuse comes up more and more and more that if you have a conversation with women thats a real conversation so youre there to talk about their health or their children if you stay long enough theyll tell you about the abuse in their community and what i know is that abuse silences women and girls and its unacceptable so i completely agree you have to stand in your own authority stand in your integrity and we all have to fight back and it takes finding other like minded women like women just like when he said like shes changed turn her life into be an activist and it takes other male allies to there are men who are or women takes all of us standing up and saying not ok. We got this tweet from titus and we didnt get a lot of tweets like this but i think its important to show and to share because
Hello and welcome to cross talk were all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle summoned media and even some politicians are giving Julian Assange new look and its no wonder a case can be made the u. S. Crusade against assad is a blueprint for criminalizing journalism what fate is in store for us will journalism suffer the same. Cross talking Julian Assange im joined by my guest under walker in london he is a new York Observer columnist and in los angeles we crossed he is a comedian a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron cross talk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate ill go to ron because you got up early as for this program and i much appreciate it i always do that i think. Theres been a number of articles coming out one notable is by joe lauria at the Consortium News that there are a number of politicians and even Media Outlets are taking a 2nd look afte
Are still on the streets. Now on bbc news, its organisers say on sunday there were nearly two Million People time for hardtalk. On the streets. If confirmed, it would be the largest protest in hong kongs history. Welcome to hardtalk, where i have the territorys leader, carrie lam, apologises for proposing the bill come to manly, in sydney, australia, that demonstrators fear to talk to one of the worlds most distinguished authors, thomas will increase chinese influence. Kennelly. He has written more than 30 novels, including his most im kasia madera in london. Also in the programme famous, Schindlers Ark, which was millions of people are still made into an oscar winning film, without electricity after a massive power cut across almost all schindlers list. Now in his 80s, as of argentina and uruguay. Celebrations as india defeats pakistan in a cricket world cup he reflects on modern day australia, does he believe it is a country that has matured in its identity, or is it still divided on
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