Breakfast with Papers

Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from novelist Michael Robotham (Writers' Week), journalist Antony Lowenstein and News Corp. SA political editor Matt Smith. ABOUT TODAY'S PANEL Michael Robotham Before becoming a novelist, Michael Robotham was an investigative journalist working across America, Australia and Britain. As a journalist and writer he has investigated notorious cases such as the serial killer couple Fred and Rosemary West. He has worked with clinical and forensic psychologists as they helped police investigate complex, psychologically driven crimes. Michael's 2004 debut thriller, The Suspect, sold more than 1 million copies around the world. It is the first of eight novels featuring clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin, who faces his own increasing battle with a potentially debilitating disease. Michael has also written four standalone thrillers. In 2015 he won the UK's prestigious Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award with his standalone thriller Life or Death. He lives in Sydney.  Matt Smith Matt Smith is the Political Editor for The Advertiser and Sunday Mail in South Australia. He covers State and Federal Politics with a strong focus on decisions made in Canberra that have an impact on South Australians. He was previously the State Political Editor of The Mercury in Tasmania. Antony Lowenstein Antony Loewenstein is a journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. His latest book is Pills, Powder and Smoke: Inside the Bloody War on Drugs. He's the author of Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe; the writer/co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and the codirector of an Al-Jazeera English film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other books include My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution, and Profits of Doom, and he is the coeditor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and is a contributor to For God’s Sake.  

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from journalist and author Tony Jones (Writers' Week), and The Advertiser's Michael McGuire.  

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Tony McAleer (Writers' Week), Jess Hill (Writers' Week), George Megalogenis (Author and journalist). ABOUT TODAY'S PANEL Tony McAleer Tony McAleer is an international speaker, change maker, and father of two. As co-founder and board chair for the nonprofit organization Life After Hate, he has made it his mission to help people leave hate groups. The Cure for Hate: A Former White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion is his first book. He lives in Vancouver, Canada. Jess Hill Jess Hill is an investigative journalist who has been writing about domestic violence since 2014. Prior to this, she was a producer for ABC Radio, a Middle East correspondent for The Global Mail, and an investigative journalist for Background Briefing. She was listed in Foreign Policy’s top 100 women to follow on Twitter, and her reporting on domestic violence has won two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Out Watch awards. See What You Made Me Do is her first book.  George Megalogenis George Megalogenis is an author and journalist with three decades' experience in the media. The Australian Moment won the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction and the 2012 Walkley Award for Non-fiction, and formed the basis for his ABC documentary series Making Australia Great. George is also the author of Faultlines, The Longest Decade, Australia’s Second Chance, and Balancing Act. His latest book is The Football Solution.  

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from H M Naqvi (Writers' Week), Zahra Hankir (Writers' Week), Ben Law (Writers' Week).  

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Chigozie Obioma (Writers' Week), Kavita Puri (Writers' Week) and Jillian Attrill (Head of Arts and Entertainment, The Advertiser). ABOUT TODAY'S PANEL Chigozie Obioma Chigozie Obioma was born in 1986 in Akure, Nigeria, and currently lives in the United States. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an MFA in Creative Writing and was a recipient of a Hopwood Award in fiction and poetry. He is now an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His debut novel, The Fishermen, is winner of the inaugural FT/Oppenheimer Award for Fiction, the NAACP Image Awards for Debut Literary Work, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (Los Angeles Times Book Prizes). Kavita Puri Kavita Puri works in BBC Current Affairs and is an award- winning TV executive producer and radio broadcaster. Her landmark three-part series Partition Voices for BBC Radio 4 won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize. Her critically acclaimed Radio 4 series, Three Pounds in My Pocket, charts the social history of British South Asians from the post-war years. She is currently making the third series. She worked for many years at Newsnight and studied Law at Cambridge University. Jillian Attrill Jillian has worked in key roles with some of the world’s leading media organisations, including News Corp, Sky News and the Nine Network, with an extensive period as a Senior Executive with Australia’s national public broadcaster, the ABC. She currently heads up the arts and entertainment section of The Advertiser in Adelaide.  

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Writers' Week guests Serhii Plokhy and Sanam Maher and ABC News South Australia Deputy Editor Nic Harmsen. ABOUT TODAY'S PANEL Serhii Plokhy Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. He has published in English, Russian and Ukrainian as well as having taught in Canada, Ukraine and the USA. His bestselling book Chernobyl: the History of a Tragedy won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2018. His latest book, Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II is published in October 2019. Sanam Maher Sanam Maher is a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. For more than a decade, she has covered stories on Pakistan's art and culture, business, politics, religious minorities and women. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Caravan, Roads and Kingdoms and Buzzfeed. A Woman Like Her is her first book.  Nic Harmsen Nick Harmsen is the Deputy Editor of ABC News in South Australia. An award-winning journalist, Nick has experience reporting for a host of ABC programs in Queensland, South Australia, Canberra and Washington DC. For most of the past decade, he’s covered South Australian politics.   

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