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 The Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom. Richard Flanagan

The Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom. Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan is one of Australia's most loved novelists - and most powerful orators. In the annual Alan Missen oration and the...

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 Richard Flanagan: Closing address, Sydney Writers' Festival

Richard Flanagan: Closing address, Sydney Writers' Festival

Richard Flanagan

Part 1 | Part 2 In his Closing Address to the Sydney Writers' Festival, Richard Flanagan mounts an impassioned and stinging attack on...

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The Nation Reviewed

The Road to Kinglake

Richard Flanagan

"They call it fire freeze," she said.I looked up at the tree branches bowed and twig ends extended, the leaves forced horizontal as though...

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 Richard Flanagan on Wanting and Australia. With Sally Warhaft

Richard Flanagan on Wanting and Australia. With Sally Warhaft

Richard Flanagan

In this open and honest conversation, acclaimed writer Richard Flanagan talks to Sally Warhaft, former editor of The Monthly, about some of...

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Books

Politics, Writing, Love: Writing ‘The Unknown Terrorist’

Richard Flanagan

I met David Hicks not long before he was released from Guantanamo Bay. He was drinking Makers Mark bourbon in a bar in Greenwood, a fading...

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The Monthly Essays

Out of Control: The tragedy of Tasmania’s forests

Richard Flanagan

Clearfelling, as the name suggests, first involves the complete felling of a forest by chainsaws and skidders. Then, the whole area is...

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