He wants a speedy resolution and thinks Astrid, who is an expert inĬonflict resolution based in New York, can bring together the various factionsįighting over Tasmania’s future. Astrid isĬalled in by her brother, JC, the premier of Tasmania and Liberal Party Bruny launched October 2019Įxplosion has the hallmarks of a terrorist plot and it quickly becomes aĬentral issue in the looming state election. The bridge is meant to connect Bruny to the mainland, making lifeĮasier for the locals and boosting tourism. It’s the best evidence we have yet that Australian writers areįinally waking up to the unfolding crisis.īegins with an explosion on the newly built Bruny Island bridge in the south of
We have Bruny, which is more like a hand grenade than a book, with itsĮxcoriating satire and explosive views on our political and economic It was a quiet, contemplative novel about the way art can bring people together and give us hope. Her previous novel, The Museum of Modern Love, won a swag of awards for its depiction of performance artist Marina Abramovic and her piece, The Artist is Present. Heather Rose is perhaps the last writer I would have expected to come out swinging. Writers asleep to what’s going on around them? Or worse, are they happy with Handful of powerful corporations are busy destroying our climate. Ownership has become an impossible dream for whole swaths of the community. Inequality is causing epidemics of depression, suicide and obesity. The defining characteristic of human relations. Their neoliberal political attack dogs have convinced us that competition is The world is going through an economic revolution. Outside of these worthy causes it seems as if our writers enjoy a middle-classĬontentment that turns their gaze inward to domestic life, rather than outward Our First Nations people or for the equally appalling treatment the LGBTI The most part, Australian literature in the 21st century is fairly toothless.Ī good day, our writers can muster up some anger at the appalling treatment of Review by Rohan Wilson in The Australian‘s Review magazine Saturday November 9, 2019.
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