The University of Queensland’s Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Centre for Policy Futures invite you to attend a special In Conversation event with Professor the Hon. Gareth Evans AC QC to discuss his yet to be released book, Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir.

In his book, Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir, Professor Evans looks back over the highs and lows of his public life as a student activist, civil libertarian, law reformer, industry minister, international policymaker, educator and politician. He explains why it is that, despite multiple disappointments, he continues to believe that a safer, saner and more decent world is achievable, and why, for all its frustrations, politics remains an indispensable profession not only for megalomaniacs but idealists.