Billed as the only Canberra public event around the new book, the hour-long discussion at Llewellyn Hall from 6pm on Friday, October 27, will be chaired by ANU vice-chancellor Prof Brian Schmidt.
He tells of his years as a budding Chinese scholar, his marriage to Thérèse Rein, and his various successes and misadventures as a career diplomat. He takes us through his politically formative years as Queensland’s most powerful bureaucrat and the campaigning for and winning a seat in Federal Parliament in 1998.
Kevin Rudd, completed a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies at ANU in 1981 before embarking on a diplomatic and, subsequently, public service and political career.
Books will be on sale from 5.15pm with book signings by Kevin Rudd from 7pm-8pm. Register via eventbrite.com.au
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