Australian writer, lecturer, social commentator, and award-winning advertising writer, Jane Caro investigates 'How Many Dangerous Ideas Can One Person Have?' at this year's Festival of Dangerous Ideas, 30 August 2014. Her books include What Makes a Good School, The F Word: How we learned to swear by feminism and The Stupid Country: How Australia is dismantling public education
The Byron Bay Writers Festival is this week, 1-3 August. Winner of the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Literary Prize for History, Ian Hoskins will question if we take our beloved coastline for granted in his Festival Friday session, Coast: A History of the NSW Edge. Qaisra Shahraz, prize-winning novelist and scriptwriter will talk to a panel on Saturday about the need to educate girls and women. Qaisra has been recognised as on of Pakistan's 100 most influential women. Her most recent book is Revolt.