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- Fridaysi"on fridays,", single work poetry
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Trans Rights Activist Rebekah Robertson,
single work
column
'A visit to the home of author, actor and founder of transgender support network Transcend, Rebekah Robertson.'
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Angela Woollacott : Don Dunstan,
single work
review
— Review of Don Dunstan 2019 single work biography ;'When I immigrated to Australia in 1986, this country was notably forward-looking compared with the United States and Britain, where Reagan’s and Thatcher’s neoliberal policies were busily dismantling civil society and social welfare. Here was universal healthcare, free tertiary education and a decent safety net for society’s most vulnerable. I found palpable excitement about Australian film, popular music and literature. With Uluru recently returned to its traditional owners, it seemed that Indigenous land rights and the redress of historical wrongs were only a matter of time.'(Introduction)
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Ender Başkan : A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man,
single work
review
— Review of A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man 2019 single work autobiography ;'The cultural historian and essayist Maria Tumarkin once described an essay as “a dramatisation of a writer’s mind at work”. Ender Başkan’s A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man, though a novel, takes this dictum as its primary motivating force.'(Introduction)