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Two giants of Australian journalism — award-winning feature writer and former Age editor Michael Gawenda (My Life as a Jew) and The Australian’s foreign editor Greg Sheridan — have both written books about the role of faith in their lives. In this session, they will explore themes connected to their religious practice, the role of religion in local and global politics, and how lives might be enhanced by spiritual belief and traditions.

Michael and Greg are exceptional communicators with vast experience in coering local and world affairs. With seasoned broadcaster and former Radio National Life Matters host Amanda Smith in the interviewer’s chair, this will be a compelling conversation.

Michael Gawenda is one of Australia’s best-known journalists and authors. In a career spanning four decades, he was a political reporter, a foreign correspondent based in London and in Washington, a columnist, a feature writer, and a senior editor at Time Magazine. He was editor and editor-in-chief of The Age from 1997 to 2004.Michael Gawenda has won numerous journalism awards, including three Walkley awards. He was the inaugural director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne, and is the author of four books.