![]() GEOFFREY COUSINS: Why, I'm the greediest person? What is this? ![]() JENNIFER BYRNE: We're going to start with you, Geoffrey. She has since risen to the top of the greasy pole without, it seems, falling even once into the hot oil. Finally, Janine Allis, founder of the Boost Juice phenomenon, who I first met when she was named Telstra Business Woman of the Year ten years ago. Alternatively, he'll bring us the view from Brunswick Street. He's here on my assumption that as creator of the successful Murray Whelan crime novels, he will bring an insider's expertise on how greed motivates character and plot. Shane Maloney, writer, flaneur, dabbler in the lesser sins. Whereas Dee Madigan, more the specialist on consumer greed, probably, though as a queen of Adland and marketing strategist, she could find so much sweeter ways to put it and tell us that we really do need it, all of it, all the time. He's a philanthropist, a novelist, an activist, a man who has stared corporate greed in the face and lived to tell us the tale. To discuss modern greed in art and life, let me quickly introduce our splendid panel tonight, starting with Geoffrey Cousins, who has run businesses, he's advised governments, he's sat on boards. But are these sins still so deadly? How do we write about them, what do they mean today, starting with one of the biggies - greed? Now, greed is good, saith the amoral sage, Gordon Gekko, and there is plenty to suggest that it is avarice that's become the defining sin of our time, even if the traditional punishment of being boiled alive in hot oil for all eternity has fallen out of fashion. JENNIFER BYRNE: Good evening, and a very warm welcome to our series on the seven deadly sins - conceived by a 4th-century monk, honed by a pope, a league table of human vices which has inspired writers and thinkers throughout the ages, from the simplest kids' fables to those grand, old canvases of bodies tumbling into the fires of hell come Judgement Day. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |