Award-winning journalist Andrew McMillen was given unprecedented access to education anatomy facilities. Join him as he shares the stories of those who donate their bodies to science.
An AUSLAN interpreter sponsored by Deaf Services Queensland will be present at this event.
Andrew McMillen is an award-winning freelance journalist and author based in Brisbane. His newest book is Skeleton School: Dissecting the Gift of Body Donation, published by University of Queensland Press in September 2016. His first book, Talking Smack: Honest Conversations About Drugs, was published by UQP in 2014. His feature journalism has been published in The Weekend Australian Magazine, Rolling Stone, Good Weekend, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Qweekend, and Buzzfeed. In 2015, he was named Freelance Journalist of the year at the Queensland Clarion Awards. He also hosts Penmanship, a podcast about Australian writing culture, which features in-depth interviews with people who earn a living from working with words.
Kathleen Noonan is a journalist & columnist, who has reported in South Africa, the UK and Australia over three decades. Her weekly column ‘Last Word’ has appeared in Saturday’s CourierMail for 14 years. Raised on a sugarcane farm in NQ, Kathleen did her early news reporting in the Mackay district. After working in South Africa through the dying years of apartheid and the transition to democracy, she returned to Australia, working as a senior features writer, sub-editor and section head with various newspapers. Kathleen is chair of Second Chance, the only charity in Australia that raises money exclusively for homeless women. It also supports at-risk women and children in domestic violence shelters.
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