The future of the left in Australia: Labor and the Greens - enemies or friends?

23 Aug 2012

Presented by The Ideas & Society Program.

Discussant

Robert Manne

Professor of Politics, La Trobe University

Date and Location

Wednesday September 5, 2012
John Scott Meeting House, La Trobe University, Melbourne Campus

The panel

Adam Bandt

labor-and-greens-thumb1 Adam Bandt has been the Greens Member of the House of Representatives since 2010. Formerly he was an industrial relations and human rights lawyer with Slater & Gordon. Presently he is the Deputy Leader of the Greens in the federal parliament. He has a doctorate from Monash University in the area of social theory.

Andrew Leigh

labor-and-greens-thumb2 Andrew Leigh has been the Labor Member of the House of Representatives for Fraser since 2010. Formerly he was a Professor in the Research School of Economics at the ANU. A member of the Association of the Social Sciences in Australia, in 2011 he received the Economics Society's Australia's Young Economist Award.