Lucinda Holdforth is a speechwriter and author. After time spent in the Foreign Affairs Department and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, she worked for the Hawke–Keating Labor government up to 1996, including as speechwriter to deputy prime minister Kim Beazley. She has since worked with chairs and CEOs of top-twenty Australian companies, entrepreneurs and innovators, and not-for-profit organisations. She is the author of True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris (2004), Why Manners Matter (2008) and Leading Lines (2019). Holdforth regards the free play of speech and ideas as essential for democracy and shared progress.
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21st-Century Virtues
Lucinda Holdforth
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21st-Century Virtues
Lucinda Holdforth
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Catch our authors at the Sorrento Writers’ Festival
Catch our authors: Inala Cooper, John Lyons, Richard King, Lucinda Holdforth and Michael Gawenda at the Sorrento Writers' Festival.
Catch our authors at the Brisbane Writers Festival
Be sure to catch Richard King, Satyajit Das, Ian Lowe, Lucinda Holdforth and David Witty at this years Brisbane Writers Festival.
Catch our authors at the Sorrento Writers’ Festival
Catch our authors: Inala Cooper, John Lyons, Richard King, Lucinda Holdforth and Michael Gawenda at the Sorrento Writers' Festival.
Catch our authors at the Brisbane Writers Festival
Be sure to catch Richard King, Satyajit Das, Ian Lowe, Lucinda Holdforth and David Witty at this years Brisbane Writers Festival.
