Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Reflections of a Pale, Male and Stale Caliban
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'This year I turned 60. It's a milestone birthday I dreaded. I've seen six decades of Australian and world history, from the sunset years of the Menzies era and the clean-cut popsters of Bandstand to what is shaping to be a long period of progressive political and social dominance under new Labor prime minister Anthony Albanese-a world where the likes of Kim Kardashian are the great philosophers of our time, and being an 'influencer' on social media is the life's ambition of Generation Z, just as being a steam-train driver was the career aspiration of my childhood. It has been six decades of torrential social, economic and political change that has been so rapid, so monumental, so comprehensive that the Sydney suburban culture of my 1960s childhood is so remote from Australia today that, to my four-year-old daughter Elizabeth, it will seem as remote and alien as life in ancient Greece, or on Mars.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 81 no. 4 December 2022 25610002 2022 periodical issue

    'Many things play on the mind of the new editor at an old magazine. Top priority: don’t let the thing perish on your watch.

    'And here we are with a new edition of Meanjin, the last of its 81st year, and the last of my editorship. The good news is that there will be another edition next March, this one prepared by the magazine’s new—twelfth—editor, Esther Anatolitis.' (Jonathan Green, Editorial introduction)

    2022
    pg. 48-52
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