It's Scary but Nobody Cares : Challenging Australia's Reputation for Deadliness single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 It's Scary but Nobody Cares : Challenging Australia's Reputation for Deadliness
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'I've never understood why Australians bother with the drop bear myth. It's like a morgue trying to freak out visitors with a plastic fly in the complimentary punch bowl. If Aussies want to freak out foreigners, they can simply relate their own everyday encounters with deadly creatures, such as finding a funnel-web spider submerged in an air bubble in their swimming pool, or discovering a brown snake in their washing machine, or being bitten by a redback spider at the age of three and taken to the GP's office to be told, 'It's probably fine. ' These are all actual experiences Australians have related to me, unsolicited.'  (Publication abstract)

 

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    y separately published work icon Griffith Review Writing the Country no. 63 January 2019 15965671 2019 periodical issue

    'The world is full of beautiful places. Beaches and oceans, cliffs, forests, mountains and valleys, deserts, rivers, islands, harbours and bays. Places where the sky is a perfect half dome, and others where it is pinched between mountains and buildings. These beautiful places have the power to inspire and delight, to provide respite and solace. They are depicted by artists and evoked by poets, and in some cultures assume a spiritual significance beyond their physicality. We flock to them in increasing numbers, maybe sensing that they will not always be there.'  (On suicide watch? The enduring power of nature, Julianne Schultz : Introduction)

         2019     pg. 263-170
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
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