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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Sydney Ideas & Media @ Sydney presents<BR>
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<B>Kristinn Hrafnsson, journalist and spokesperson for wikileaks.org<BR>
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Date:</B> Friday 17 June, 2011 <BR>
<B>Time:</B> 6.00pm to 7.30pm <BR>
<B>Venue:</B> The Great Hall, the University of Sydney. (Venue access information) <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/maps/index.shtml">http://sydney.edu.au/maps/index.shtml</a></U></FONT>> <BR>
<B>Cost:</B> $20/$15 concession. Free for University of Sydney staff, students and alumni (please register online). <BR>
<B>Registration:</B> For University of Sydney staff, students and alumni please register online via seymourcentre.com.au <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/seymour/boxoffice/program_kristinn_hrafnsson.shtml">http://sydney.edu.au/seymour/boxoffice/program_kristinn_hrafnsson.shtml</a></U></FONT>> <BR>
<B>Bookings:</B> Seymour Centre box office, phone 02 9351 9740 or book online seymourcentre.com.au <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/seymour/boxoffice/program_kristinn_hrafnsson.shtml">http://sydney.edu.au/seymour/boxoffice/program_kristinn_hrafnsson.shtml</a></U></FONT>> <BR>
Tickets also available on night. <BR>
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Wikileaks has irrupted into political life, with its revelations shocking the public and governments globally. And if it’s been tough for politics-as-usual, what about media? Wikileaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson talks frankly about the organisation’s relationship with mainstream media–and the profound legal, ethical, and political issues it poses for us all. The audience will have a chance to discuss with him questions such as:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>How does Wikileaks see the media, now it is often working closely with it?
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>What are the challenges working with the existing media structures?
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Does Wikileaks aim to change the role of the media in our society?
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>How does Wikileaks’s content differ from traditional media, especially the corporate sector?<BR>
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<B>Kristinn Hrafnsson</B> is the current spokesman for WikiLeaks following legal battles engulfing the organisation's founder, Julian Assange. Hrafnsson is an Icelandic investigative journalist who exposed high level criminal activity and corruption. His work on the collapse of Iceland's Kaupthing Bank caused his TV program to be taken off air and the team sacked. He joined the news team of Iceland's national broadcaster and fought against the legal suppression of further exposés about the bank drawn from documents published by WikiLeaks. Hrafnsson was subsequently made redundant from the broadcaster in July last year and began to work independently. He collaborated with the WikiLeaks organisation and called the December 2010 attacks on WikiLeaks a "privatisation of censorship".<BR>
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Kristinn Hrafnsson is in Australia as a guest of Intelligence Squared Australia for the16th June debate, Wikileaks is a force for good. <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.iq2oz.com/events/event-details/2011-series-sydney/june.php">http://www.iq2oz.com/events/event-details/2011-series-sydney/june.php</a></U></FONT>> <BR>
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Gerard Goggin<BR>
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