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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 20 May 2016 of The Guardian Australia est. 2013 The Guardian Australia
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Magda Szubanski May Leave Australia If Changes to Book Industry Go Ahead, Steph Harmon , Lucy Clark , single work column

'Magda Szubanski said she would consider leaving the country and called for writers to go on strike. Richard Flanagan called for the resignation of arts minister, Mitch Fifield. Tim Winton said the Turnbull government was about to kick a “massive own goal”.'

'On a night designed to celebrate the triumphs of Australian literary culture, there was no escaping the overriding message of doom: that the Australian book industry is in peril because of proposed changes to copyright law and import restrictions. ...'
Gillian Mears: Wry, Poetic, Unmistakably Australian and Gone Too Soon, Philippa Chandler , single work obituary
'I discovered Gillian Mears’s work in my teens, when my mum loaned me a copy of The Mint Lawn. That was 20 years ago, yet I still remember the uneasy feeling the book gave me, as if I was eavesdropping on adult conversation. That book won Mears the Vogel prize and I was hooked. ...'
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