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Hands off Miles Franklin?

Jill Roe (Miles Franklin’s biographer) takes issue with the Editor’s suggestion that it is time to rejuvenate the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Peter Rose replies to her criticism.

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The assassination of Kevin Rudd

Neal Blewett examines three very different analyses of the ‘Rudd phenomenon’.

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Remembering Jessica Anderson

Susan Sheridan contemplates the ‘truthful fictions’ of the late Queensland novelist, Jessica Anderson.

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Winds of war

Ruth Starke admires two new novels for children: Sonya Hartnett’s The Midnight Zoo and Isobelle Carmody’s The Red Wind.

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Also in September

Open Page with Blanche d’Alpuget

Peter Mares on Climate Change

Kate Holden on Sharyn Killens

Don Anderson on Ashley Hay

Carmel Bird on Chris Womersley

David Tissiman on Australian Dance

Alison Broinowski on Robyn Archer

Plus

New poems by Peter Rose and Stephen Edgar

Signed copies of Peter Temple’s Truth for new subscribers