Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Reimagining the Inheritance of Loss of Country : Stan Grant’s Talking to My Country
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'Reading Walkley award winning journalist and Wiradjuri man Stan Grant’s latest book Talking to my country (Grant 2016a) can be a sharply contradictory experience. On the one hand, the book’s short, brisk sentences and emphatic, conversational style (you can almost hear him talking) might tempt you to read it in a single sitting. And on the other, it is advisable to digest its searing contents – phrases, images, metaphors, bleak statistics delivered wrapped in masterfully told stories – at a measured pace. The most poignant aspect of this riveting personal account of growing up Aboriginal in Australia is that it comes from a highly credible professional known for his “inclination to look for common ground, to be diplomatic” (Grant 2015). This is why Stan Grant’s part-memoir, part-polemic achieves the effect it sets out to create – for people to listen.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon NEW : Emerging Scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies vol. 2-3 no. 1 2016-2017 15296661 2016 periodical issue

    'This issue features some of the best work submitted by students enrolled in Aboriginal Political History: Ideas, Action and Agency at the University of Technology Sydney in 2016 and 2017.'  (Introduction)

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