David Fettling David Fettling i(11331571 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Australia’s Forgotten Internationalist David Fettling , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , May 2019;
— Review of JB Chifley : An Ardent Internationalist Julie Suares , 2019 single work biography 'Labor’s Ben Chifley played a key role in breaking down Australia’s fortress mentality'
1 Crossing Lines: Walking Multiracial Singapore David Fettling , 2017 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Griffith Review , August no. 57 2017; (p. 228-234)

'The day after the news filled with Hilary Clinton's pneumonia diagnosis, I found the Al-Salaam restaurant closed. I looked up and down my local stretch of Changi Road, wondering where else I could get some breakfast roti, and quickly gathered this wasn't a normal Singapore weekday. A large crowd - Malays, Indians, Arabs, others - was leaving the local mosque. A hawker centre was dense with patrons eating noodles with conspicuous unhurriedness. Families strolled along a canal leading down to the beach.'  (Publication abstract)
1 Young Saigon : Open to the World David Fettling , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: Griffith Review , May no. 56 2017; (p. 174-182) 'In the building opposite mine here in Ho Chi Minh City, still commonly called Saigon, an old man in the top-floor apartment tends his rooftop garden. He climbs there via a ladder every morning, shirtless and holding a plastic watering can, and spends a half hour amid green potted plants. I watch him shamelessly, a 31-year-old Australian Jimmy Stewart in a Vietnamese Rear Window. How old would he be? Old enough to have been in the war. He moves slowly, and pays no attention to me or anything else beyond his tended patch of green - in fact, he appears to be encouraging a wall of creepers to all but block out his view of the street.' (Publication abstract)
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