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1 Labor to Impose Streaming Content Quotas and Boost Funding for Writers and Musicians Paul Karp , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 December 2022;

'Arts minister Tony Burke reveals policy that will also put ‘First Nations first’ and ensure artists get more ‘fair remuneration’'

1 Bob Hawke, Former Australian Prime Minister, Dies Aged 89 Paul Karp , Anne Davies , 2019 single work obituary (for Bob Hawke )
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 16 May 2019;

'Labor PM, who served from 1983 to 1991, modernised Australia’s economy and introduced significant social reforms.'

1 'Australians Knew Bob Loved Them' : Tributes Paid to PM Hawke Paul Karp , 2019 single work obituary (for Bob Hawke )
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 May 2019;

'Former and current leaders, both in Australia and abroad, as well as celebrities join in praise of longest-serving Labor prime minister.'

1 A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane Review – 'Lost' Novel Holds the Key to Author's Success Paul Karp , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 7 March 2019;

— Review of A Season on Earth Gerald Murnane , 2019 single work novel

'Unabridged and twice as long, the updated version of Murnane’s 1976 novel lacks the subtlety of his later works.' 

1 Samuel Johnson Quits Acting to Focus on Campaigning for Cancer Research Paul Karp , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 26 February 2016;
1 y separately published work icon Impossible the Next Paul Karp , Sydney : Remora House , 2013 8226463 2013 single work novel

'Everybody knows that Jorn Utzon did not use luck to design Sydney's famous Opera House, the Queen Victoria Building was never the centre of a budding microstate on the North Shore, and that Governor and Mrs Macquarie were not cross-dressers. Everyone, that is, except the protagonist of Impossible the Next, a novel that re-imagines the history of real places in Sydney by following the adventures of a roguish travel writer with a penchant for lying about history.

'It starts at Camp Cove, the little harbour beach just inside South Head which was the original landing place of the First Fleet which the correspondent “discovers” was a fiction invented to boost property prices. And that’s just the start of his adventures – what follows is a series of absurd vignettes that defy credibility and logic in increasingly inventive ways. The correspondent tirelessly uncovers “truths” about famous places in the city, taking Sydney’s history and giving it just the right twist to keep readers guessing.

'At first his misrepresentation is harmless enough, but will the correspondent himself be the ultimate victim of his inability to tell fact from fiction? ' (Publication summary)

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