Indelible City
Louisa Lim In Conversation With Stan Grant
Is journalistic neutrality possible – is it ethical – as democracy crumbles? Louisa Lim faced down that question on the streets of Hong Kong. Her book is a love letter to a city she can no longer call home.
Artist
LOUISA LIM is an award-winning author and journalist. She covered China and Hong Kong for a decade as a correspondent for the BBC and NPR, and has reported for the New York Times, Washington Post and the Guardian. Louisa's most recent book is Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, which was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award, the Stella Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Non-Fiction Award. Raised in Hong Kong, she lives in Australia with her two children and teaches at the University of Melbourne.
Moderator
STAN GRANT is a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man. A journalist since 1987, he has worked for the ABC, SBS, the Seven Network and Sky News Australia. From 2001 to 2012 he worked for CNN as an anchor and senior correspondent in Asia and the Middle East. As a journalist, he has received a string of prestigious international and Australian awards. In 2015, he published his bestselling book Talking to My Country, which won the Walkley Book Award, and he also won a Walkley Award for his coverage of Indigenous affairs. In 2016 he was appointed to the Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition. Stan is now Professor of Global Affairs at Griffith University and International Affairs Analyst at ABC.