Author Event: Jock Serong Wednesday 23 september || 6pm

Many Australians know of Fletcher Jones – the stores, the clothing, the daggy dad slacks – but few know the extraordinary man behind it all. David Fletcher Jones was an autodidact, a wanderer and dreamer who became a visionary businessman and social entrepreneur.

His life is a fascinating reflection of Australia’s twentieth century progress across social policy, immigration, manufacturing, the city and country divide, the rise and fall of wool. But most important, perhaps, is what we can learn from his fundamental human decency and his determination to run an enterprise for profit while seeking to do good at individual and societal levels. There are lessons for us all in a life like Fletcher’s.

Join us to hear award winning author, Jock Serong, discuss his new biography of a Victorian icon.

Jock has also written episodes of TV and countless feature articles in media ranging from Surfing World to Patagonia’s Roaring Journals, Rolling Stone, Meanjin, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Literary Hub and The Monthly. If pushed, if pressed, if badgered and berated, he would say that he tries to write about alternative ideas of Australia – ones that don’t fit the obvious but conform to a wider preference for forgetting.  A Suitable Man is his first work of biography.

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