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First known date:
2018...
31 August
2018
of
The Conversation
est. 2011
The Conversation
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* Contents derived from the 2018 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Art of the Colonial Kangaroo Hunt,
single work
essay
Section: Friday essay
'Since the beginnings of settler occupation in Australia, the kangaroo has been claimed at once as a national symbol and as a type of vermin to be destroyed en masse. In Kate Clere McIntyre and Michael McIntyre’s recent award-winning film, Kangaroo: A Love Hate Story, Sydney academic Peter Chen sums up this stark contradiction: “Kangaroos are wonderful, fuzzy, they’re maternal, and they’re also a pest that should be eliminated wholesale”.' (Introduction)
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Peter Corris’s Cliff Hardy Was a Genuine Australian International Crime Fiction Hero,
single work
column
'By the 1970s Australian crime fiction was drifting.
'The genre had a long history, back to convict days, when it dealt with unfair convictions and brutal treatments, most famously in Marcus Clarke’s For The Term Of His Natural Life (1870-2).' (Introduction)
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