'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away. There are the hard questions we ask of ourselves on Australia Day.
'Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends.
'In this book, Australia Day, his long-awaited follow up to Talking to My Country, Stan talks about reconciliation and the indigenous [sic] struggle for belonging and identity in Australia, and about what it means to be Australian. A sad, wise, beautiful, reflective and troubled book, Australia Day asks the questions that have to be asked, that no else seems to be asking. Who are we? What is our country? How do we move forward from here?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Dedication: To Lowanna, John, Dylan, Jesse - my children. This country and this world are yours.
Epigraph: I say we have a bitter heritage, but that is not to run it down. - Randolph Stowe, Tourmaline
Review : Australia Day
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2020
23464885
2020
single work
review
'Stan Grant – journalist, author of Talking to my Country and lauded orator – is back with his follow up work Australia Day.' (Introduction)
Live Recording : Stan Grant in Conversation with Nam Le
Nam Le
(interviewer),
2019
23469384
2019
single work
podcast
interview
'We were delighted to have bestselling author Stan Grant in Melbourne for one night only to talk about his two new books, Australia Day and On Identity. Grant is in conversation with Nam Le, author of The Boat.' (Production summary)
'It was a great moment in Australian history when William Cooper walked to the Australian parliament to object to the treatment of Jews in Germany during World War II. At the time, the British and Australian parliaments were ambivalent about the atrocities occurring across Europe, and yet an Aboriginal man could not bear to see the government of his country sit on its hands.' (Introduction)
'Every year, in the lead-up to January 26, the spill of media becomes overwhelming, with newsprint, sound bites, social media and talkback radio all debating the legitimacy of this contentious date. It is interesting to note that Stan Grant’s book is called Australia Day and not Invasion Day. As a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man, he might understandably lend his support to the latter in recognition of colonisation and trauma. But his book is a passionate, earnest and, it has to be said, idealistic and hopeful attempt to douse the heat of identity politics, and to find a way beyond cultural warfare.' (Introduction)
'It was a great moment in Australian history when William Cooper walked to the Australian parliament to object to the treatment of Jews in Germany during World War II. At the time, the British and Australian parliaments were ambivalent about the atrocities occurring across Europe, and yet an Aboriginal man could not bear to see the government of his country sit on its hands.' (Introduction)
Review : Australia Day
Melbourne
:
Bad Producer Productions
,
2020
23464885
2020
single work
review
'Stan Grant – journalist, author of Talking to my Country and lauded orator – is back with his follow up work Australia Day.' (Introduction)
'Every year, in the lead-up to January 26, the spill of media becomes overwhelming, with newsprint, sound bites, social media and talkback radio all debating the legitimacy of this contentious date. It is interesting to note that Stan Grant’s book is called Australia Day and not Invasion Day. As a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man, he might understandably lend his support to the latter in recognition of colonisation and trauma. But his book is a passionate, earnest and, it has to be said, idealistic and hopeful attempt to douse the heat of identity politics, and to find a way beyond cultural warfare.' (Introduction)
Live Recording : Stan Grant in Conversation with Nam Le
Nam Le
(interviewer),
2019
23469384
2019
single work
podcast
interview
'We were delighted to have bestselling author Stan Grant in Melbourne for one night only to talk about his two new books, Australia Day and On Identity. Grant is in conversation with Nam Le, author of The Boat.' (Production summary)
