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• Arts

  Losing our voice

  RICHARD FLANAGAN SMH The Australian book industry is fighting for its life, writes Richard Flanagan. I am reminded standing here of my...

• Arts

  Flanagan’s unparalleled attack

  JASON STEGER The Age RICHARD Flanagan closed the Sydney Writers’ Festival on Sunday with a beautifully crafted and blistering attack on the...

• Politics

  Confusing fact and fiction

  GREG LEHMAN. Full text of edited Letter to the Mercury Editor The fictions of the past were masqueraded as historical, even scientific...

• Environment

  A compliant press, a vision rooted hard into the past …

  PETER HENNING Tasmania is not dissimilar here and now to the political-economic mindset of the southern states that Warren focused on in...

• Forestry

  The oldest trick in politics

  RICHARD FLANAGAN: In early 2002 some millions of dollars of forestry machinery in the southern forests was badly vandalised. Following intense and...

• Article

  The best novel this (past) year, or several to come …

  Stella Clarke Sydney Morning Herald: Richard Flanagan explores the energy of desire in a novel that brings together two worlds, with tragic...

• Environment

  The forests hysteria

  Mark Poynter Online Opinion The public hysteria surrounding the proposed Tasmanian pulpmill shows that the logging of native forests remains one of...

• Politics

  The compassion of Peter Cundall

  Peter Henning He said much more, all without notes. He spoke of talking to prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, and of stories...

• Article

  Dark heart of desire

  Don Anderson Review of Richard Flanagan’s Wanting, The Australian Without doubt a main subject of Wanting is what its author calls the...

• Article

  EXCLUSIVE: Flanagan plagiarises Akerman

  The Hag It is with some horror. It is with disbelief that I have the unwelcome duty to reveal that Richard Flanagan...