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Watson’s supremely elegant prose offers a challenge to Australians who’ve long favoured city life on the coastal plains over life in the towns and emptiness beyond
• Don Watson reads an exclusive extract from The Bush
Two decades ago, I found myself sitting with Don Watson somewhere in the labyrinthine offices of the prime minister of Australia, a position then held tightly by Paul Keating.
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Former footballer Rick Hanlon established Cape York House, but says it’s not about developing footballers – ‘it’s about developing young men who’ll have a chance at life’
Australian Rules football may well have been Rick Hanlon’s salvation.
But he is still the first to tell the young Indigenous men and boys to whom he is both a life mentor and a coach that being a great footy player doesn’t make you a good bloke.
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Djalu Gurruwiwi is a spiritual keeper of the didgeridoo. He’s also a mysterious and charismatic figure, whose admirers include a film-maker, a street artist and the musician Gotye. Paul Daley joins them on a voyage along an ancient songline
It’s not clear where the story of Arnhem Land’s Djalu Gurruwiwi begins or ends. It just meanders infinitely, back and forth, across the land and into the sea along the songlines that tell it.
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Merritt, a social worker, anti-war campaigner and widow of Flight Lieutenant Paul Pardoel, wants an inquiry into the 2003 invasion, and a debate over further involvement
Kellie Merritt can’t be dismissed as some sort of naïve peacenik for trying to put a brake on Australia’s apparently escalating involvement in American-led military operations in Iraq.