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Ann Standish

Ann Standish is a Melbourne-based historian, writer and editor. Her book Australia through Women’s Eyes was published in 2008.

Ann Standish reviews 'Australians: Origins to Eureka, Volume 1' by Thomas Keneally

December 2009–January 2010, no. 317 01 December 2009
A number of questions sprang to mind when I heard that Thomas Keneally was writing a three-volume history of Australia from its origins to the present. The first was to wonder how he would fit it into his crowded schedule. Clearly, though, this is not a problem. Keneally has just published another novel. More intriguing was the question as to what Keneally could add to the subject. After all, Aust ... (read more)