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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Translating the World
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'In the summer of 2019–20 I worked in the customer service department of an Australian zoo. I was used to cycling to work, gliding past traffic and cutting through parklands in my khaki uniform. But I found myself driving much more than usual. Cycling resulted in weariness and respiratory irritation, as I breathed in toxic particulate matter. Bushfire smoke smothered the city, forcing us indoors. With the smoke settling for days at a time, I relied more on my exhaust-spewing vehicle to get to work. The dark irony was hard to miss.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 80 no. 3 September / Spring 2021 23531590 2021 periodical issue 'We’re living in an information era; we know that. But not all information is created equally. Sitting here in the thick of Meanjin’s 80th year, it seems a moment to wonder at the role of a magazine like this, to think about its place in the spectrum of public ideas.' (Jonathan Green, Editorial introduction) 2021 pg. 61-71
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