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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2 May 2020 of The Weekend Australian est. 1977 The Weekend Australian
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2020 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Spotlight, Andrew McMillen (interviewer), single work interview

'Adam Briggs , 33, is a hip-hop artist, comedy writer, record label owner, actor and newly published children’s book author.' (Introduction)

(p. 3)
Wild Flower, Rosemary Neill , single work review
— Review of Ellis Rowan : A Life in Pictures Christine Morton-Evans , 2020 single work biography ;

'Botanical artist and ‘intrepid female explorer’ Ellis Rowan was once a household name. Now, a new biography is bringing her neglected paintings to new generations, writes ROSEMARY NEILL'

(p. 6)
Think Big, Stephen Romei , single work column

'If fiction is the early draft of history, our love-and-death relationship with animals is about to become far more complicated, writes Stephen Romei'

(p. 14)
Bring Back Your Dead, Jack Cameron Stanton , single work review
— Review of Ghost Species James Bradley , 2020 single work novel ;

'In his new novel, Ghost Species, James Bradley walks the tightrope between ideas and entertainment, revisiting a theme that has dominated his writing of late: the possibility of Earth’s environmental ruin.' (Introduction)

(p. 15)
Keeping Alive Echoes of Past Stories, Tom Gilling , single work review
— Review of The Watermill Arnold Zable , 2020 selected work short story ;

'Arnold Zable opens his new book, The Watermill, with a Chinese proverb: “The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.” Chinese proverbs are usually read as profound and timeless truths, but this seems an odd one for the Melbourne writer to have chosen.' (Introduction)

(p. 16)
Trek to Truth in the Jungle, Helen Elliott , single work review
— Review of Sweetness and Light Liam Pieper , 2020 single work novel ;

'Connor is an Australian bloke in his early 30s living by his wits in India. He’s in India but he has knocked about the world for so long it could just as easily be Thailand, or Cambodia, or Colombia.' (Introduction)

(p. 16) Section: Review
Confessions of an Ironist, Sarah Holland-Batt , single work column

'These days, I find myself acutely aware of borders and boundaries. Everywhere, rigid lines have replaced permeable, flexible ones: the lines between nations and states, of course, but also those between ourselves and others.' (Introduction)

(p. 18)
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