FORA.tv Speaker - John Birmingham

John Birmingham is an Australian writer and regular contributor for the Monthly Magazine. He's best known for his memoir He Died With a Felafel in His Hand and his book on the history of Sydney Leviathan: the unauthorised biography of Sydney, for which he won Australia's National Prize for Non-Fiction in 2002. He has written two Quarterly Essays Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy and A Time For War: Australia as a Military Power.