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Rewriting Futures,
single work
column
'“It feels like I’m on the run from a disastrous disease,” says Noongar writer and poet Claire G. Coleman. “We went to Barunga Festival in the Northern Territory, then over to Laura dance festival in Queensland, then the shit started hitting the fan. We got to Alice Springs, broke down and now Darwin’s gone into lockdown. We’ve constantly been escaping lockdowns.”' (Introduction)
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Crossing to Stream,
single work
column
'Amid the gloom of an industry largely left to fend for itself through the pandemic, digital seasons of live performance are a sign of hope. By Robert Reid.'
(Introduction)
- Limbs, single work short story
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Always, Morris Gleitzman,
single work
review
— Review of Always 2021 single work children's fiction ;'After 16 years, Morris Gleitzman brings his best-selling series to a close, saying an emotional goodbye to his hero, Felix. The books have now stretched well beyond their beginnings, where Gleitzman introduced young readers to the horrors of the Holocaust through the eyes of his young protagonists, Felix, a Jewish boy, and Zelda, the Polish girl with Nazi parents whose life he saved. Since then, we’ve seen Felix as an old man in Now, and on the cusp of his adolescence again in After, Maybe and Soon.' (Introduction)
