This week at MCH
Good afternoon All,
I am delighted to share the following two events:
Geoff Page - Poetry Reading and in conversation with Luciana Todd
Thursday 25 September 2025
7:00 pm 9:00 pm
Manning Clark House
11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest ACT 2603
Manning Clark House presents Canberra’s highly revered poet, Geoff Page who will read some of his favourite poetry and be in conversation with Luciana Todd, CEO of Manning Clark House.
Geoff Page, OAM, is based in Canberra and has published twenty-five collections of poetry as
well as two novels and five verse novels. His recent books include In medias res (2019), 101
Poems: 2011-2021 (2022) and Penultima (2024), all from Pitt Street Poetry.
Geoff has also read his poetry and talked on Australian poetry throughout Western Europe as well
as in the US, Canada, Korea, Japan, India, China, Singapore and New Zealand. Selections from
work have been translated into Greek, Macedonian, German, Serbian, Mandarin and Spanish,
He has also reviewed Australian poetry extensively and has run monthly poetry readings and jazz
concerts in Canberra for many years.
Refreshments will be served in the break.
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/DDGLC
Taxing Times Talks - What do tax cuts really mean? - Melinda Cooper in conversation with Will Brehm.
Wednesday 24 September 2025
6:00 pm 8:00 pm
Manning Clark House
11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest ACT 2603
This talk broadly explores wealth and taxation, focusing on the idea of tax expenditures in the Australian context. It dives into the intellectual history of supply-side economics and contemporary formations of when tax cuts aren’t really tax cuts. It highlights the regressive outcomes of some tax policies, especially those related to housing.
Melinda Cooper is a social and political theorist whose work focuses on the recent history of capitalism and its intersections with the politics of class, gender and race.
Her most recent work Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Zone Books/Princeton University Press, 2024) explores, amongst other things, the history of tax preferences that led to the rise of Donald Trump as real estate entrepreneur.
Dr. Will Brehm's research interrogates how comparative and international education intersects with international relations and the political economy of development.
There will be a Q&A session following the presentation, then light refreshments.
MCH members $15; Concession (Gov’t support and full-time students) $15; Non-members $20
Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/DEWSF
Warmly,
Luciana Todd
Director
Manning Clark House
m| 0423 717 061
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