Business Behaving Badly
Josh Bornstein I Richard Holden | Adele Ferguson
Consider the state of Australian businesses with expert panellists. Join labour relations lawyer Josh Bornstein and investigative journalist Adele Ferguson in conversation with Richard Holden.
Soaring and crashing stock prices, resigning CEOs and out of control labour practices: what is going on with Australian businesses? Award-winning labour relations lawyer and author of Working for the Brand: how corporations are destroying free speech Josh Bornstein and award-winning senior business writer and investigative journalist Adele Ferguson join host Richard Holden to consider the state of business. Get your head around the latest scandals, analyse business-employee relations and discover the ethical challenges shaping the future of corporate Australia.
This event is presented by the Sydney Writers' Festival and supported by UNSW Sydney. Presented in partnership with the State Library of NSW.
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TICKETS & VENUE INFORMATION
Ticket Prices
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Venue Information
This event will take place live at the State Library of NSW. For all venue and visitor safety information, please visit State Library of NSW.
ACCESS
Wheelchair Access
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CONTACT
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Josh Bornstein
Josh Bornstein is an award-winning lawyer specialising in employment and labour-relations law who has successfully sued a lot of badly behaved corporations and acted for employees who were sacked for expressing political views. He is a board member of the progressive think tank The Australia Institute and on the advisory board of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at the University of Melbourne. His book, Working for the Brand: how corporations are destroying free speech, is published by Scribe.
Richard Holden
Richard Holden in Professor of Economics at UNSW Sydney and President of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He was formerly on the faculty at MIT and the University of Chicago and earned a PhD from Harvard University. He has published numerous papers in top economics journals and is a regular columnist at The Australian Financial Review.
Adele Ferguson
Adele Ferguson is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist, columnist and author, whose work has driven parliamentary inquiries, legislative change and a royal commission. She has won nine Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley, a Logie, the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year and many other awards. In 2019, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to journalism. She wrote the best selling unauthorised biography on Gina Rinehart and the award-winning Banking Bad.