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'Anna Funder examines the nature of courage in a powerful and moving essay, commemorating the life and work of the "bravest of the brave", murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and other remarkable women who have stood up to totalitarian regimes at unthinkable cost to themselves.
'Australian history is full of images of ingenious settlers battling against the harsh, unforgiving land in order to survive. But is the European notion of 'survival' different from the indigenous one? Aboriginal writer Melissa Lucashenko argues eloquently and passionately that it is.
'Did the notion that "Greed is Good" die out with the 1980s? Perhaps at no other moment in living memory has greed played such a defining - and damning - role. At once clear-eyed and coruscating, Christopher Kremmer contemplates greed from all angles: social, historical, economic and cultural.
'Three brilliant essays written by leading and acclaimed Australian writers, commissioned by Sydney PEN, unflinchingly show us our world as never before.' (Publisher's blurb)
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These three essays were commissioned by Sydney PEN and originally presented as lectures in various Australian venues during 2008.
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- Survival, single work essay
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Works about this Work
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In Short : Nonfiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 August 2009; (p. 31)
— Review of Courage, Survival, Greed 2009 selected work essay
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In Short : Nonfiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 August 2009; (p. 31)
— Review of Courage, Survival, Greed 2009 selected work essay