Swimming with Sharks

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When:

Sun 15 May ’11, 4:00pm–5:00pm

Where: Lower NZI Room, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Dr, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Festival Club: $16.00
Earlybird: $20.00
Standard: $25.00
Student : $12.50
Booking fees may apply

Website:

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival

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Swimming with Sharks is roving reporter Michael Field's absorbing account of first-hand experiences as a newspaper and agency reporter of forty years. The South Pacific is in the midst of calamitous times. People die in anti-Chinese riots in Papua New Guinea, reporters are censored in Fiji (Field is banned in four Pacific countries, including Fiji), and countries like the Solomon Islands and Tonga live in non-democratic twilight zones: one occupied by foreign powers, the other controlled by an ageing king. It is a region ravaged by ongoing tragedy, both natural and man-made. Disarmingly frank, Michael talks with Dr Steven Ratuva and One News Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver.