Bendigo Writers Festival: Forgotten People with Russell Marks

It's no time for forgetting and these books are powerful wake-up calls that bring people out of the gloom and brilliantly into the spotlight. Refugee Sadam Abdusalam, novelist/journalist Paul Daley and lawyer advocate Russell Marks talk about writing books that defy forgetting. From the decision to write it down to the satisfaction of a published book, how does a writer balance the need to give voice to the forgotten people against the demands of the writing itself?