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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 9 March 2019 of The Weekend Australian est. 1977 The Weekend Australian
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2019 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Family Affair, Anne Loxley , single work column

'Nora Heysen struggled to emerge from her father Hans’s creative shadow, writes Anne Loxley' 

 (p. 6)
Natural Selection, Geordie Williamson , single work review
— Review of Griffith Review no. 63 January 2019 periodical issue ;

'A wide range of scientists, farmers and writers argue we each should do something to protect the world that sustains us all, even if others don’t, writes Geordie Williamson'  (Introduction)

 (p. 18)
The Boy Pulled through at Last, James Ley , single work review
— Review of A Season on Earth Gerald Murnane , 2019 single work novel ;

'Gerald Murnane’s old/new novel puts him in the company of James Joyce, writes James Ley'  (Introduction)

 (p. 20)
Glimmer of Hope in the Realm of Forgone Opportunities, Bec Kavanagh , single work review
— Review of Islands Peggy Frew , 2019 single work novel ;

'The body becomes an island in Peggy Frew’s third novel, one submerged beneath the weight of grief and unhappiness.'  (Introduction)

 (p. 20)
Inelegant Dissent and Whispers of Wisdom, Peter Craven , single work review
— Review of Green Shadows and Other Poems Gerald Murnane , 2019 selected work poetry ;

'What an odd thing it is that Gerald Murnane, the great Australian minimalist who modulates the monotonies of his flawless sentences the way Rothko modulates his shades of colour, the 80-year-old Australian writer touted as an outsider (but less so now) for the Nobel Prize in Literature, should produce such a strange yet revealing book of poems.'  (Introduction)

 (p. 21)
That Sinking Feeling as the Tide Rolls In, Thuy On , single work review
— Review of The Glad Shout Alice Robinson , 2019 single work novel ;

'You can gauge the success of a genre when its shorthand enters the zeitgeist. For a few years now, “cli-fi” has been growing as writers harness the devastating possibilities of climate change as a backbone for their fiction.' (Introduction)

 (p. 25)
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