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Award winning journalist, Mary O'Hara, challenges the narrative that poverty is made by individuals who make "bad choices".
About this Event
Award-winning journalist and writer of Austerity Bites, Mary O'Hara, looks at the pernicious narrative demonising people in poverty. Historically, "bad decisions" and personal flaws have been used to blame people living in poverty for their own circumstances, rather than economic inequality or policy decisions. This has invaded the public consciousness and influenced people across the country in their ideas and dealing with the most vulnerable people in our society.
Drawing on a two-year multi-platform initiative, this book by award-winning journalist and author Mary O’Hara, asks how we can overturn this fundamentally pernicious portrayal once and for all. Crucially, she turns to the real experts to try to find answers – the people who live it.
Mary will be interviewed by filmmaker and activist Paul Sng.