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Two incisive thinkers on law and power ask a deceptively simple question: is justice possible, and if the systems we have keep failing us, where else might we look?In her new book Finding Justice, Larissa Behrendt draws on decades of experience moving between courtrooms and Country. She argues that more than one way of understanding law has always existed in Australia and looks to First Nations practices of sovereignty – grounded in self-determination, reciprocity and collective care – as evidence that another kind of justice is possible.
Shortlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize, Marika Sosnowski's 58 Facets: On Law, violence and revolution is part memoir, part exposé, weaving together the narratives of Holocaust survivors and Israeli war criminals with Syrian activists, revolutionaries and dissenters, to trace how governments use law and bureaucracy to control the people caught within them.
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Date: Saturday, 31 October 2026
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Venue: Tibbi Whalan Hall
Tickets & More Info: https://www.bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au/events/is-justice-possible
Larissa Behrendt AO is a Eualeyai/Gamillaroi woman, award-winning author, filmmaker, lawyer and is Distinguished Professor and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney. Larissa has written fiction and non-fiction books, including Finding Eliza, After Story and her new book, Finding Justice.
Marika Sosnowski is a legal anthropologist and the granddaughter of Polish and Dutch Holocaust survivors. 58 Facets: On law, violence and revolution was shortlisted for the 2026 Stella Prize and the 2026 Douglas Stewart Prize for non-Fiction.
Eric Sidoti is Deputy Chair of the Varuna Board. He is currently a person of relative leisure, having been a self-employed consultant and adviser until recently in addition to his position as Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University.
This event is part of the 2026 Blue Mountains Writers Festival, head to bluemountainswritersfestival.com.au for more information.
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