Speechwriter Don Watson’s insider account of the prime minister he worked for, written ‘in tragic mode’, was an instant bestseller – but Keating famously hated it.
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Allegations of untruth over The Salt Path raise questions of what we expect from truth in memoir, in this age of ‘fake news’. What is the contract with the reader?
The benefits of creative writing are particularly important in countries where there’s a need to build a caring society and there are limited resources.
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Historian, The University of Melbourne
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