If the opposite of addiction isn’t sobreity, but connection, how do we reconcile this with the Australian way of life? Luke Williams and Elspeth Muir share their unique perspectives on addiction.
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Luke Williams is an Australian journalist. He has previously worked as a reporter and broadcaster at ABC radio. In 2013 he was nominated for a Human Rights Media Award for a long-form investigative piece in The Global Mail, and in 2014 his article on ice addiction, Life as a Crystal Meth Addict, was a finalist in the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. His first book is The Ice Age: My Journey into Crystal Meth Addiction, and is published by Scribe.
Elspeth Muir is a Brisbane author whose writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow, The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume One, Griffith Review, Voiceworks and Bumf. She is a postgraduate student at the University of Queensland.
Antonia Case is an award-winning writer and the publisher and editor of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines. In 2013 she won the Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Professionals’ Award for excellence in the presentation of philosophy in the media. Antonia holds an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Sydney, and she studied fashion design in Paris. She has interviewed some of the world’s leading thinkers, including Noam Chomsky, and is a regular guest on ABC radio.
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