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Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...Show more
No Fixed Address Short Black 11 by Robyn Davidson
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Short Blacks
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist ko ...Show more
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice Short Black 4 by Helen Garner
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Category: General | Series: Short Blacks
'They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts. Deceived wives and widowers, men who've never been loved and don't know why, Russian crew forced to leave their children behind for years at a time ...And then there are the married ...Show more
The Australian Disease on the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom: Short Black 1 by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Short Blacks Ser.
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which ...Show more
Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow: Short Black 12 by Galarrwuy Yunupingu
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Short Blacks
I will continue my work on my land, building a future. It is the only thing that is certain to me now and I want to advance while I can. I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women. We are setting fires to our own lives as we really should, and the flame will burn and intensify - an immense ...Show more
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