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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... vol. 82 no. 3 September 2023 of Meanjin est. 1940 Meanjin
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Interview : Kath Walker, Jim Davidson (interviewer), single work biography (p. 2-15)
State of the Nation?, Gary Foley , single work criticism
'Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner spoke in his famous 1968 Boyer lecture ‘After the Dreaming’ about the ‘cult of forgetfulness’ that pervaded the Australian national psyche.'
(p. 20-23)
Ali Cobby Eckermann, single work interview (p. 24-31)
If I Could Speak, the Way You Doi"If I could speak the way you do", Maya Hodge , single work poetry (p. 32-33)
Island Boyi"Old Cape Barren", Jim Everett , single work poetry (p. 45)
Along the Road, Sadlands, Tristen Harwood , single work essay

'We are always on Country, no matter if it is called city or desert, school or bush, road, rock, mountain, beach—even in the prison it is all Indigenous land. This is the settlers’ unpayable debt. I run down by the river on Wurundjeri Country, in morning or night, whether it is lighted by mist or the silver wattle blooms, it’s all the ancestors and the stories of this land, which I can never fully know. It is through art and writing, I think, that we have already begun to reciprocate these stories, to account for and somehow resist malign presences, which, as Charmaine Papertalk Green tells us in ‘More than Balga Grass trees and kangaroos’ (2022) have tried to ‘eras[e] our stories out’. So here:' (Introduction)

(p. 46-51)
Diary Entry 01 : Grief & Strong Black Women, Apryl Day , single work essay

'Welcome to the brain dump and rants of a burnt-out Black woman who has mastered the skills of denial and compartmentalisation around grief and loss.'(Introduction)

(p. 52-56)
Doan-doan Dhagun, Unya (Dark Place, Mine)i"WARNING: This is not the method in which I choose to compose…", Samuel Wagan Watson , single work poetry (p. 57)
In a State of Midlife Flux, Celeste Liddle , single work essay

'This year, in April, I turned 45. I also moved into the first house that I have ever bought. It’s taken me until I am thoroughly middle-aged to put down some actual roots. I’m in a suburb that I’ve always felt at home in, in an area that I first moved into as a teenage home-leaver. And despite the fact that the place needs some pretty expensive work to make it sustainable, it feels pretty good to finally have a ‘permanent address’.' (Introduction)

(p. 58-63)
Tidelinesi"The tideline ridges—a fingerprint impressed on the land,", Lulu Houdini , Boo Badley , single work poetry (p. 64-67)
Truth, Tony Birch , single work short story (p. 78-84)
Especiallyi"We are always sensitive to land but especially tonight", Ellen van Neerven , single work poetry (p. 85)
Home, Melanie Saward , single work short story (p. 86-93)
Bamfield Waterfalli"The smell takes me there", Samantha Faulkner , single work poetry (p. 94-95)
Kambera, Jeanine Leane , single work short story (p. 96-101)
Something Slight, Jasmin McGaughey , single work short story (p. 102-106)
Kannai"who will remember us", Maria Van Neerven , single work poetry (p. 107)
Indelible Stainsi"Oh the things that we know but are hard to explain… felt in our bodies not just in the brain", Melissa Stannard , single work poetry (p. 119)
Black and White and in between : My Family History, Phillip Bell , single work autobiography (p. 120-123)
A Thought Train, Anna Wommatakimmi , single work autobiography (p. 124-125)
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