David Latham David Latham i(11535989 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 ‘Not Being Talked About’ : Putting the Arts Back on the Political Stage David Latham , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 440 2022; (p. 25)
'When the Morrison government decided in December 2019 to axe the federal arts department and to fold it into the department of infrastructure, transport, regional development, and communications, it was a strong signal – if another was needed – of the low esteem and influence the arts wields in Canberra. But it shouldn’t have come as a surprise. The decision was made just months after the 2019 election campaign, when the Liberal Party offered no arts policy, and Labor only a nominal one. The depressing news came on the back of a decade of crisis and neglect for the sector, well before the spectre of Covid wreaked havoc for many artists and performers.' 

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1 A Review of Mihaela Nicolescu and Nadine Browne’s ‘The Whip Hand’ David Latham , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2018 2018;

— Review of The Whip Hand : Stories Mihaela Nicolescu , Nadine Browne , 2016 selected work short story
1 She Who Pays the Piper : An Ex-Finance Minister on Fiscal Waterboarding David Latham , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 393 2017; (p. 24)

'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ L.P. Hartley’s now proverbial observation at the start of The Go-Between (1953) functions as a statement of fact and a warning. The writer who wishes to traverse the terrain between a nation’s present and its past must navigate a minefield – linguistic, cultural, and historical. Therefore, when you attempt to navigate not only across time but across nations – say, Angola in 1986, Hiroshima in 1952, France in 1855 – the exercise is fraught with danger. But this is the ambitious task that Kyra Giorgi has set herself in her first book of fiction, The Circle and the Equator, a collection of thirteen short stories.' (Introduction)

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