The Fifth Estate: Citizenship and Its Discontents

Authors

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  Sally Warhaft

  Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne freelance interviewer, broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. Sally is currently running her recorded history and interview business, Notable Productions, and is host of The Wheeler Centre's long-running live journalism series, The Fifth Estate. Sally is a former editor of The Monthly magazine and the author of Well May We Say: The speeches that made Australia. She is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University.
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  Thomas Mayo

  Thomas Mayo is a Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal, Erubamle Torres Strait Islander man. He is the National Indigenous Officer of the MUA. Thomas is a signatory of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and has been a leading advocate since its inception. Thomas has written five books published by Hardie Grant, and has articles and essays published in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review and Sydney Morning Herald. Thomas is the author of Finding the Heart of The Nation, Dear Son, Finding The Heart, Freedom Day and The Voice to Parliament Handbook with Kerry O’Brien. The Voice to Parliament Handbook won the 2024 ABIA award for Book of the Year, Social Impact Book of the Year and General Non-Fiction Book of the Year and in 2024 Always Was Always Will Be was published.
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  Judith Brett

  Judith Brett is a political historian. She is the author of Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (1992), Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003), and The Enigmatic Mr Deakin (2017) which won the 2018 National Biography award. She has written four Quarterly Essays, including The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future. In 2019 she published From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got compulsory voting. A collection of her writing was published under the title Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life in 2021 Her most recent book is Fearless Beatrice Faust, a biography of the second wave feminist who the Women’s Electoral Lobby.
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  Cathy McGowan

  In 2013 Cathy McGowan became the first female independent to sit on the cross bench, where she represented the Victorian rural electorate of Indi for 6 years.  Winning the set of Indi, after the Coalition had held the seat for 82 years was a water-shed moment.  Indi became Exhibit A for future political campaigns by community independents across the country and what can to be know as the 'teal' wave at the 2022 election.  Cathy Goes to Canberra tells both the story of the campaign to win Indi around the community's kitchen tables and the subsequent realities of negotiating good policy with the major parties.  This is a handbook of 'how to be elected' and 'how to survive Canberra'.  It is a manifesto for alternative communist-based politics told through the prism of the story we know as Cathy McGowan Goes to Canberra.

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