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Richard Flanagan
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Richard Flanagan | Literature | Public event | Sydney | Sydney Writers' Festival | Culture
Part 1 | Part 2 In his Closing Address to the Sydney Writers' Festival, Richard Flanagan mounts an impassioned and stinging attack on the the proposal to allow parallel importation of books into Australia. In a talk that draws on subjects as broad as his cousin Arthur "Mad Dog" Kemp, Wi... » play video
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"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 a great gale is blowing. Yet the air was still. And the charred tree was dead, and has been dead since the apocalypse of Saturday.Then, as the...
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In this open and honest conversation, acclaimed writer Richard Flanagan talks to Sally Warhaft, former editor of The Monthly, about some of the many things that have been occupying him recently: Baz Luhrmann's Australia (which Flanagan co-wrote), living in Tasmania in the shadow of Gunn's, a... » play video
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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 town in the Mississippi Delta. He was fatter than in the photos I had seen, and though his wavy blond hair showed only a few streaks of grey, he also appeared...
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Richard Flanagan | The Monthly Essays | May 2007 | Business | Environment | Politics
Clearfelling, as the name suggests, first involves the complete felling of a forest by chainsaws and skidders. Then, the whole area is torched, the firing started by helicopters dropping incendiary devices made of jellied petroleum, commonly known as napalm. The resultant fire is of such ferocity...
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