Thoughts on Pam Browns “At the Wall” and current political events

Source: The Guardian Australia “Will anyone ever agitate again? When will they occupy the privatised academies?” This last week we read the sarcastic and scathing social commentary poem of Pam Brown “At the Wall” and the irony of this being an assigned reading in the week of the largest climate protests the world has ever …

Patterson VS Lawson, and the Australian identity.

After reading these two authors this week I have spent a lot of time considering the links between their writing and the idea of the Australian experience and identity. With Patterson’s romanticised, rugged bush tales and the mythology he created against the doomsday, socialist, urban tales of woe, Lawson weaved.  Due to my limited word restrictions and the …

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