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'Do you read Australia’s First Nations (Indigenous) writers? If not, why not? People read for many reasons: information, entertainment, escape, to contemplate in company, to be moved. Reading can also be a political act, an act of solidarity, an expression of willingness to listen and to learn from others with radically different histories and lives.' (Introduction)
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https://theconversation.com/read-listen-understand-why-non-indigenous-australians-should-read-first-nations-writing-78925
Read, Listen, Understand: Why Non-Indigenous Australians Should Read First Nations Writing
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- Don't Take Your Love to Town 1988 single work autobiography
- The Swan Book 2013 single work novel
- Carpentaria 2006 single work novel
- Dirty Words 2015 selected work poetry
- Smoke Encrypted Whispers 2004 selected work poetry
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