Born into a wealthy family, John Büsst left Melbourne for north Queensland where he campaigned against planned oil and gas exploration of the reef in the 1960s. His story was little known, until now.
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Henry Lawson said deafness was ‘in a great measure responsible for my writing’. Wright said hers was ‘part of the conditions I live under’. Their disability was inherent to their creativity.
A new collection of non-fiction by one of Australia’s greatest poets enriches our understanding of her legacy.
Poems sing to us that life really matters, now.
Wildflower artist Kathleen McArthur led one of Australia’s first major conservation battles, over Queensland’s Cooloola region. Yet this canny activist is rarely mentioned in most accounts of the campaign.
Judith Wright was possibly our greatest poet and a passionate social activist. But a new biography suggests that in writing her family memoirs, Wright avoided evidence that her settler forebears likely participated in the murder of Aborigines.
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, Adelaide University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UniSA Creative, Adelaide University
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Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Deputy Dean Research, Education and the Arts, CQUniversity Australia
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Lecturer in Science and Society, James Cook University