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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 28 September 2019 of The Weekend Australian est. 1977 The Weekend Australian
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Question of Character, Stephen Romei , single work column

'Crime writer Chris Hammer knows plot matters but he thinks people are even more important, as he tells Stephen Romei' 

 (p. 16)
From the Bush to the Breaker, Stephen Loosley , single work review
— Review of Major Thomas Greg Growden , 2019 single work biography ;

'The Bushveldt Carbineers, raised in South Africa in 1901, were volunteer cavalry, under the command of Lord Kitchener of the British Army. In reality, the Carbineers constituted the most disgraced military unit in which Australians have ever served. Notorious for their indiscipline and contempt for the established rules of war, their most infamous officers were Lieutenant Harry “Breaker” Morant and Lieutenant Peter Handcock.'  (Introduction)

 (p. 20)
Worlds of the Written Word, Carmel Bird , single work review
— Review of The Innocent Reader : Reflections on Reading and Writing Debra Adelaide , 2019 selected work essay ;

'‘Books were always my treasures, my doorways into that important other world that saved me.’’ Debra Adelaide’s The Innocent Reader is a ­collection of 14 essays, all of which are frankly personal, exploring the meaning of reading and writing.' (Introduction)

 (p. 21)
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