Tasmanian author, Richard Flanagan delivered a moving closing address at the Melbourne Writers' Festival this week. He made a prophetic call for a return to truth in public discourse and to courage, independence of thought and concern for a larger good in our individual lives. Richard spoke of the rise of non-freedom and the decline of empathy in an Australian society overrun with the disease of conformity, desensitised to the desperate plight of refugees, prone to glossing over fundamental problems, making too much of our impoverished politics and lacking courage to disagree with power-brokers, who offer only consumerism and cynicism in place of the truth.
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