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Watsonia : a writing life / Don Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Don, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian literature--21st century.
- Australian literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (561 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, Victoria : Black Inc., [2020]
- Summary:
- A definitive anthology that captures the masterful Don Watson at his best - powerful, insightful and funny.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Beginnings
- The Gippsland frontier
- Occasional address
- Journey to the Outer Hebrides
- A "paradigm shift"
- Oscar and the ALP
- Leaders and Leadership
- Gough Whitlam
- From Hawke to eternity
- Paul Keating: Garibaldi in an Armani suit
- Recollections: Afterword
- John Howard's guilty secret
- Julia Gillard and political leadership in Australia
- In praise of Tony Windsor
- Tony Abbott: My fellow Australians
- The mystery of Malcolm Turnbull
- Leaders and dung beetles
- Australian Traditions
- Once a jolly lifestyle
- A toast to the postmodern republic
- Rethinking the republic
- The joke after God
- Judaeo-Christian mateship
- Anzac Day
- Meanjin's noble failure
- Rabbit syndrome
- All the way with Donald J?
- The Words to Say It
- Teaching English
- The public language
- Spin doctrines
- Iconography
- The conservative crusade against the ABC
- There it is again: Or a short history of cant
- Freudenberg: A time to remember
- "Use your brains"
- Australian History
- Stories light and dark
- Manning Clark
- Geoffrey Blainey
- Brian Fitzpatrick
- Liberalism, capitalism - and revolution?
- A Highlander on the Australian frontier
- Caledonia Australis revisited
- Memory and imagination
- Cassocks among the tussocks
- Injustice and Ideology
- The "war" on terror
- The East Timor problem
- A never-never land for sense
- Revolutions past
- Sport and Nature
- A demigod called Don
- Steve Waugh: Why we loved the other PM
- The turf
- Ken Hunter: Like a vertical greyhound
- Lingering memories of monster kicks at Loch
- Seasonally adjusted
- Possums, rabbits and the society of birds
- America
- The 310 to Drippin' Springs
- Faith, freedom and Katrina
- Once upon a time in America
- Enemy within
- American carnage.
- Writing and Art
- Mark Twain: The wayward tourist
- Jan Senbergs
- Andrew Chapman: Political vision
- Prometheus and the pen
- Epilogue
- On indignation
- On optimism
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781743821596
- 174382159X
- OCLC:
- 1195453289
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