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'Friday 30 June 2023
The Chinese History Museum
Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia.
'My uncle drops us off near the museum in Kuching style: illegally stopping in a turning  lane next to a row of old shophouses. He tells my daughter and I that he will pick us up from the same spot, then putters off in an ancient Proton Wira, once gold, now grey.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 68 no. 2 2023 27359848 2023 periodical issue 'A vivid memory, for me, from the launch of our previous issue, is of standing in front of a room full of people and of feeling slightly overwhelmed at the prospect of having to say something — very soon. Tony Hughes-d’Aeth had just launched the Magazine, and we were in the middle of celebrating Catherine Noske’s editorship. I was standing alongside Josephine Taylor and Melissa Kruger. And I knew I had to find some small words to pay just tribute to Kate’s work. None were coming. The notes I’d made didn’t feel right.' (Editorial introduction) 2023 pg. 124-138
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