Rethinking Democracy - Do We Need the State? The looming NSW state election brings a timely question:: What function does the state performs and for who?

14th March 2019 Lismore Regional Gallery

Who knew politics could be so stimulating! No we are not talking about pre-poll or even poll-bots but last nights "Thursday Night Live - Rethinking Democracy - Do we need the state?".

Facilitator Associate Professor Adele Wessell with panelists Law Lecturer Aiden Ricketts, Politics Lecturer Dr Yvonne Hartman, educator, singer/songwriter and loyal defender of social and environmental justice Marcelle Townsend-Cross and former Mayor of Lismore Jenny Dowell OAM covered a lot of ground from abolishing the states altogether to deliberative democracy.

A partnership event of Southern Cross University​ and the Lismore Regional Gallery​,Thursday Night Live! is an evening of provocation, discussion and dialogue held on the second Thursday of each month

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