2025 PROGRAM
Special Event: The Chairman's Lounge
DATE:
Sunday 30th March
LOCATION:
Manly Golf Club
COST:
$55
We may not be “the most exclusive club in the country,” as former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce once claimed, but we’re offering the next best thing!
Join us for the Manly Writers’ Festival’s very own Chairman’s Lounge—a glamorous and insightful closing session featuring celebrated author and journalist Joe Aston. With his trademark wit and incisive commentary, Joe will reveal how Qantas, once Australia’s most beloved national carrier, managed to spectacularly crash its reputation.
Set against the elegant backdrop of the Manly Golf Club, this exclusive event is the perfect way to wrap up the Manly Writers’ Festival in style.
Enjoy champagne and high tea while delving into the fascinating world of corporate identity, brand loyalty, and what happens when it all comes undone.
Champagne, High Tea, and Musical Interlude from 3pm.
The conversation with Joe starts at 3.45pm.
Host: Helen Vatsikopoulos
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.