Australian History’s Great Divide: How writers view our past - Mark McKenna at Sorrento Writers Festival

Tony Abbott and Mark McKenna with Sally Warhaft

Books about Australia’s past continue to engage readers and dominate non-fiction bestseller lists. Tony Abbott, Rhodes Scholar, history buff, former parliamentarian and Australia’s 28^th Prime Minister, and Emeritus Professor Mark McKenna, of the University of Sydney (author of The Shortest History of Australia), will discuss their new books with anthropologist and broadcaster Sally Warhaft.