John Birmingham in conversation with Andrew Stafford at Riverbend Books Brisbane

John Birmingham joins Riverbend Books at 6.30pm on Friday 20th November to discuss his new Quarterly Essay, On One Nation and The Rising Right.

What's behind One Nation's surge?

The rise of the new right in Australia isn't a sudden eruption. In this brilliant essay, John Birmingham gives us the deep history and the present moment. Using personal stories, insights from political insiders and overarching analysis, he shows how the right has found a story to explain everything. Simple, visceral, wrong in all sorts of ways, but coherent.

Birmingham charts the political earthquake as One Nation shatters the Liberal Party, and examines where Australian politics goes from here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR….

John Birmingham’s books include the cult memoir He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney and the fiction series Weapons of Choice. He is the author of two Quarterly Essays, Appeasing Jakarta – Australia’s Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy and A Time for War – Australia as a Military Power. He is a regular contributor to the Monthly.