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July 10: Deadly Connections – NAIDOC Week
Keenan Mundine… in conversation with Bill Kable
Keenan Mundine has spent half his life in detention. As a child he lost both parents within a year of each other. At age 7 he was sent to live with family who were unable to provide him with a stable family life and he learned to live on the street from the proceeds of crime. But Keenan got a vision of his whole life behind bars and changed his ways. From a sad and lonely beginning Keenan has set up his own foundation with DGR status to help Aboriginal kids stay out of jail and lead happy lives.
July 17: Saving Lieutenant Kennedy
Brett Mason … in conversation with Bill Kable
On a moonless night in August 1943 a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampments, the 11 surviving members of Kennedy’s crew eventually struggled ashore on a small uninhabited island. Missing, presumed dead, behind enemy lines, with no food or water, and with several injured, the future looked bleak for the shipwrecked Americans. Fortunately, Australian ‘coast watcher’ Lt Reg Evans witnessed the immediate aftermath of the collision from his nearby jungle hideaway. Working under the searching eye of the Japanese military, over the next 5 days Evans and two Solomon Islander scouts located Kennedy and his crew and ensured their rescue.
Author Brett Mason tells this story of wartime bravery and survival which helped create JFK’s legend and paved his way to the White House. He also shines a spotlight on Australia and America’s shared wartime experience.
July 24: An Unlikely Prisoner
Sean Turnell … in conversation with Bill Kable
For 650 days Sean Turnell was held in Myanmar’s terrifying Insein Prison on the trumped-up charge of being a spy. In An Unlikely Prisoner he recounts how an impossibly cheerful professor of economics, whose idea of an uncomfortable confrontation was having to tell a student that their essay was ‘not really that good’, ended up in one of the most notorious prisons in South-East Asia. And how he not only survived his lengthy incarceration, but left with his sense of humour intact, his spirit unbroken and love in his heart.
‘What [Sean Turnell] endured in his 650 days of incarceration is something that no human being should have to endure, yet he has done it with grace and, even in inhumane conditions, with profound humanity.’
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
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