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 Brisbane-based journalist and columnist. She has written a weekly opinion column ‘’Last Word’’ in Saturday’s Courier-Mail for 13 years.
Raised on a farm amid paddocks of sugarcane in north Queensland, Kathleen did her early news reporting in the Mackay district.
After reporting in South Africa through the dying years of apartheid and release of Nelson Mandela, and a stint travelling and writing in the UK, Kathleen returned home, working as a freelance journalist for publications including The Australian. She returned to The Courier-Mail as a news reporter, sub-editor, section head & senior features writer.
Her weekly column explores everything from love, death, books, running, music, poetry, teachers, refugees and chooks.
She is also chair of the Second Chance committee, the only charity in Australia that raises money exclusively for homeless women. It helps fund crisis accommodation for elderly women, young teenagers with babies, and at-risk women and children in Queensland’s domestic violence shelters.
