Even if you never voted for the former senator Scott Ludlam, or his party, you might remember his midnight speech to the empty Senate, inviting Tony Abbott to Western Australia.
There was nobody else in the chamber at the time, but several million people watched it on social media.
We didn’t know the breadth of his curiosity, the stretch of his imagination, or the reach of his ambition. We don’t tend to expect these things in our politicians.
The tag line on the cover of his remarkable new book, Full Circle, provided by the writer Raj Patel, says: Australia lost a Senator, the world gained a luminous writer.
Ludlam has proved he’s prepared to draw the very foundations of life into his argument for a better understanding of our place in the world, and the responsibilities that come with it.
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In Full Circle, Ludlam seeks old and new ways to make our systems humane, regenerative and more in tune with nature.
He shines a light on the bankruptcy of the financial and political systems that have led us here, taking the reader on a journey to the four corners of the world.
What he discovered along the way is that we stand at a unique moment in time, when billions of tiny actions by individuals and small groups have the chance to coalesce into a great movement, one with the power to transform history.
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Scott Ludlam’s writing is clear, articulate, informed, bristling with ideas.
He will be in conversation with Steven Lang, at an Outspoken event at Maleny on August 11.
Meanwhile, the event initially scheduled for July, with Mark McKenna and Luke Stegemann, had to be postponed due to COVID restrictions. It will be held on Thursday, September 16.
Outspoken Maleny presents Scott Ludlam in conversation
- Maleny Community Centre
- Wednesday, August 11
- Starts at 6pm for 6.30pm Tickets $22 Students $15
- www.outspokenmaleny.com
