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'Every volume of a history has to be written at least three and sometimes four times, and, as each volume contains nearly 200,000 words, that means over three-quarters of a million words have to be written to get out a volume. A man has to be single-minded to keep going.' 

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  • Manning Clark delivered the Australian Broadcasting Commission's 1976 Boyer Lectures, which he titled 'A Discovery of Australia'. This is an edited extract of the final lecture, 'Telling the Story'. 

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    y separately published work icon Australian Author vol. 50 no. 2 2018 15356073 2018 periodical issue

    'In October 1962, the inaugural meeting of the proposed Society of Authors was held, to end the present feudal state of the Australian writer' and address the issues of 'poor and variable anthology fees, the need for standard contracts and the position regarding copyright' (Dal Stivens. foundation president). Broadside, the first journal of the Australian Society of Authors, began in September 1963 as a 'medium of information and opinion', and fulfilled that role until the last edition was published in July 1968 to make way for the launch of The Australian Author in 1969. This magazine was never intended as a literary puma\ and, as a result, did not meet the funding criteria of the time. Rather, its purpose was to 'concentrate attention on the defence of literary property—the writer's business (Stephany Steggall, Status and Sugar, 2013), which is exactly what it did for the next 50 years. ' (Publication summary)
     

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