Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Reading Crisis : The Politics of Fire in Amanda Lohrey’s The Reading Group and Vertigo
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'When parliament returned from its break during what we are now calling the 'Black Summer' of 2019-20, Prime Minister Scott Morrison rose to give a condolence speech for the victims of the fires. As leaders often do during a crisis, he reached for language that was grand, grave, even poetic, in his description of the catastrophic fires that continued to burn across south-eastern Australia as he spoke.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 65 no. 1 July 2020 19787647 2020 periodical issue

    'With writing and ideas from Felicity Plunkett, Nardi Simpson, Nicholas Jose, Tracy Ryan, Kevin Brophy, and many more.

    'Westerly 65.1 includes writing in support of victims of Australia’s 2020 bushfire disaster, and the latest group of emerging talent to pass through our Writers’ Development Program' (Publication abstract)

    2020
    pg. 156-170
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