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Raimond Gaita Raimond Gaita i(A15700 works by)
Born: Established: 1946 Dortmund,
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Germany,
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1950
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1 COVID, Quality and a Common World Raimond Gaita , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 79 no. 4 2020;

'Rosemary Kayess broke her neck when she was 20, causing her to become a quadriplegic, able to move her head but unable to eat and drink unassisted. Now, at 57, she is associate director of the Disability Innovation Institute, chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and lectures in international law at the University of New South Wales. With other panellists she appeared on a recent edition of Q&A on ABC TV discussing loneliness. The chair, Hamish MacDonald, asked her how she felt when she heard discussions through this pandemic about critical care triaging systems. She replied that those discussions ‘hit her in the face’, that she realised she had become ‘collateral damage’, that she was no longer ‘real’ in the eyes of people who didn’t think themselves mortally vulnerable to COVID-19, and that she was ‘dispensable’. MacDonald was moved, as were other panellists and members of the audience.'  (Introduction)

1 Obligation to Need Raimond Gaita , 2013 single work autobiography
— Appears in: A Country Too Far : Writings on Asylum Seekers 2013; (p. 90-102)
'Some Australian's are deeply saddened by the hotility that many of their fellow Australians have shown towards asylum seekers. Confronted with the aggressive nationalism that such hostility often expresses, some people never again want to hear talk of love of country. Even if there can be such love, not corrupted by what Ghassan Hage calls 'paranoid nationalism', they believe it is so rare and its distortions which are all too often murderous sos many, that it should be discouraged.' (Author's introduction)
1 At the Table by the Window Raimond Gaita , 2012 single work obituary (for Peter Steele )
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 82 2012; (p. 52-53)
1 Trusting the Words : Reflections on Landscape of Farewell Raimond Gaita , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Novels of Alex Miller : An Introduction 2012; (p. 217-230)
'I'm not a literary critic so I won't comment in any detail on what strikes me as very fine writing - some of Miller's best, perhaps. I will discuss instead what I believe to be his great moral achievement in Landscape: to have brought together in the one book dramatic, fictional, meditation on an aboriginal massacre of whites and aspects of the Holocaust, each illuminating the other, but without doing anything that could properly be called 'comparing' them, or 'weighing the gravity' of one against the other. To do that requires, of course, great moral tact, but also much more.' (Source: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/australian_literature/images/content/conferences/miller_abstracts2.pdf)
1 'Like a World in Itself' : The Wonder of 'East of Time' Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg 2011; (p. 49-69)
1 Multiculturalism, Love of Country and Responses to Terrorism Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Essays on Muslims and Multiculturalism 2011; (p. 189-220)
1 3 y separately published work icon Singing for All He's Worth : Essays in Honour of Jacob G. Rosenberg Alex Skovron (editor), Raimond Gaita (editor), Alex Miller (editor), Sydney : Picador , 2011 Z1802827 2011 anthology essay criticism poetry
1 Memoir Raimond Gaita , 2011 extract autobiography (After Romulus)
— Appears in: The Age , 27 August 2011; (p. 12-14)
1 Deep Connections, Artistic Inevitabilities Raimond Gaita , 2011 extract autobiography (After Romulus)
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Spring no. 33 2011; (p. 245-252)
1 12 y separately published work icon After Romulus Raimond Gaita , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2011 Z1794628 2011 single work autobiography 'In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published—the story of his father who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of the Second World War. In the isolated landscape of country Victoria, Christine succumbed to mental illness, and a series of tragedies befell the family. Described as 'a profound meditation on love and death, madness and truth, judgment and compassion', Romulus, My Father became an instant classic. Now, thirteen years later, and four years after the release of the film, Raimond Gaita has put together this collection in which he reflects on the writing of the book, the making of the film, his relationship to the desolate beauty of the central Victorian landscape, the philosophies that underpinned his father's relationship to the world and, most movingly, the presence and absence of his mother and his unassuaged longing for her.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 3 y separately published work icon Essays on Muslims and Multiculturalism Raimond Gaita (editor), Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2011 Z1773448 2011 anthology essay 'September 11 2001 marked a change in Australian attitudes towards immigrants. The spotlight was on Muslims.

'This collection of thought-provoking essays looks at multiculturalism's successes and failures in providing a secure, well-integrated, free and fair Australia.

'Philosopher and writer Raimond Gaita has gathered some of Australia's leading writers in the field to examine an issue that goes to the heart of Australia's identity.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 Sorry, but It's No Time for Minds To Slam Shut Raimond Gaita , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , May vol. 3 no. 4 2008; (p. 12-13, 16)
'The Holocaust is rightly the paradigm of genocide, yet it is a misleading one.' (Editor's abstract)
1 A Film That Glows with the Humanity of My Father, Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 23 June 2007; (p. 27)
1 Romulus, My Father: From Book to Screenplay to Film Raimond Gaita , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Romulus, My Father 2007; The Australian Literary Review , June vol. 2 no. 5 2007; (p. 20-21)
Raimond Gaita ponders his reasons for writing Romulus, My Father and reflects on its transformation into film.
1 Justice and Hope Raimond Gaita , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2006 2006; (p. 396-409)
Gaita concludes his essay on 'Justice and Hope' with the statement: 'Reflection on duty, on the nautre and requirements of justice, on what it is to honour those requirements, on the virtues and vices of being a dreamer and on the moral psychology of political commitment - these should be informed by Plato's simple but profound insight that we become like what we love.'
1 First Love It, Then Live It Raimond Gaita , 2006 extract essay (Justice and Hope)
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11-12 November 2006; (p. 28-29)
Gaita contends 'not that young people should abandon a sense of obligation for love or that they should not dream of a better world. It is that their sense of the place of justice in their lives should not depend on the energies that such dreams inspire and, for a time, sustain.'
1 Truth, Memory, and Writing About Others Raimond Gaita , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Inga Clendinnen : A Celebration 2005; (p. 17-24)
'Raimond Gaita spoke with Morag Fraser about reading Inga Clendinnen and writing truthfully. [This article] is an editied version of his thoughts.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 When Politicians Lie Raimond Gaita , 2004 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , Spring no. 5 2004; (p. 119-128)
1 3 y separately published work icon Why the War Was Wrong Raimond Gaita (editor), Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2003 Z1141300 2003 anthology criticism A collection of articles criticising Australia's involvement in the 2003 Iraq War. Contributors include Raimond Gaita, Eva Sallis and Mark McKenna.
1 Ali Ismail Abbas Raimond Gaita , 2003 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 256 2003; (p. 4)
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