Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that Byron Writers Festival takes place on the traditional lands of the Arakwal Bumberbin Peoples of the Bundjalung Nation. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge them as the original storytellers of the lands and waterways of this Country.

Writer

Niki Savva

Niki Savva is an award-winning journalist, author and political commentator. She is the author of Earthquake: The Election that Shook Australia. Niki began writing on federal politics in 1974 and has worked for The Australian, the Herald Sun and the Age as a correspondent and bureau chief. She is a regular columnist with The Age and the SMH and appears on ABC's Insiders.

Byron Writers Festival '25

Join us from 8—10 August at Bangalow Showground on Bundjalung Country

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