Paul Daley Paul Daley i(A67836 works by)
Born: Established: 1964 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Young Hawke by David Day Review – A Gritty, Disturbing Addition to Former Prime Minister’s Story Paul Daley , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 23 August 2024;
— Review of Young Hawke : The Making of a Larrikin David Day , 2024 single work biography

'The childhood roots of Bob Hawke’s adult bad behaviour are carefully examined in this biography of the often lionised figure'
1 ‘Candid’, ‘Remarkable’, ‘Beguiling’ : The Best Australian Books Out in April Steph Harmon , Catriona Menzies-Pike , Celina Ribeiro , Walter Marsh , Paul Daley , Sian Cain , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 April 2024;
— Review of Black Duck : A Year at Yumburra Bruce Pascoe , Lyn Harwood , 2024 single work autobiography ; Hope Rosie Batty , 2024 single work autobiography ; The End of the Morning Charmian Clift , 2024 single work novel ; The White Cockatoo Flowers : Stories Yu Ouyang , 2024 selected work short story ; The Work Bri Lee , 2024 single work novel
1 Misunderstood and Mis-remembered : What Is the Real Story of Bennelong and the Colonial Captain Phillip? Paul Daley , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 December 2023;
1 Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah FitzGerald Review – Illuminating Biography of Dorothea Mackellar Paul Daley , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 15 September 2023;
— Review of Her Sunburnt Country : The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar Deborah FitzGerald , 2023 single work biography 'The first authorised biography reveals the Australian poet’s fascinating contradictions, but has less to say on the wilful white amnesia of her work' 
1 The Memorials of Forgetting Paul Daley , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 134-144)

'Sometimes you need to leave a place to understand how emotionally important it is to you. I don't mean simply in a 'Home is where the heart is' way. Home for me, I've come to realise, is just as much about where many of my thoughts and memories continue to dwell.' (Publication abstract)
1 y separately published work icon Book It In : Marion Frith Paul Daley (presenter), 2022 25160191 2022 single work podcast

'Paul Daley talks to Marion Frith about how she wrote a novel about life after loss and human resilience in the midst of trauma – by telling the story through an unlikely friendship between two fictional characters.'

Source: Book It In.
1 y separately published work icon Book It In : Chelsea Watego Paul Daley (presenter), 2022 25159905 2022 single work podcast

'Paul Daley speaks to Chelsea Watego about why she says ‘fuck hope’ and why she wants to take her book, Another Day in the Colony, to Aboriginal readers in prisons.'

Source: Book It In.
1 y separately published work icon Book It In : Craig Sherborne Paul Daley (presenter), 2022 25159616 2022 single work podcast

'Craig Sherborne’s novel The Grass Hotel tells the story of caring for a mother who is declining with dementia. He talks to Paul Daley about his own complex upbringing – one that was affectionate, but also filled with stilted and misunderstood expressions of care.'

Source: Book It In.
1 Every Hill Got A Story : Collected First Nations Oral Histories Are a Profound Gift to National Memory Paul Daley , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 May 2022;

'Bequeathed from memory to memory, these records remind us how recently central Australian Indigenous people felt the upheaval of colonialism'
1 ‘How’s This for a Beginning?’ : The Tricky Work of Writing the Story of Australian History Paul Daley , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 13 February 2022;
— Review of Making Australian History Anna Clark , 2022 multi chapter work criticism

'Anna Clark set out to write the history of Australian history. In grappling with the past, she faced up to the giants in her own family.'
1 y separately published work icon Book It In : Tara June Winch and Thomas Mayor Paul Daley (interviewer), 2022 23741234 2022 single work podcast interview

'Dear Son is a searing anthology of letters by First Nations fathers and sons. Two of Australia’s best authors discuss the tenderness and strength of Indigenous masculinity, in conversation with author and journalist Paul Daley.' 
1 Marion Frith on Hope in the Aftermath of War Paul Daley (interviewer), 2022 single work podcast interview
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 20 January 2022;

'Paul Daley talks to Marion Frith about how she wrote a novel about life after loss and human resilience in the midst of trauma – by telling the story through an unlikely friendship between two fictional characters'

 
1 y separately published work icon Book It In : Tony Birch Paul Daley (interviewer), 2021 23740709 2021 single work podcast interview

'Paul Daley talks to Tony Birch about finding affection on the so-called margins of the inner city, the injustice of climate change and Blak humour. Birch also describes why he doesn’t view his fiction as having a political message'
1 I Love Reading New Books but I Find Equal Joy in Rediscovering Old Friends – or Frenemies Paul Daley , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 23 June 2021;

'One new friend is Charmian Clift’s Mermaid Singing, a memoir of trauma and self-discovery and a reminder of what could have been.'
1 Uluru : A Rock That Plagues Australia’s Conscience Paul Daley , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 24 May 2021;

'Mark McKenna’s short, elegant book Return to Uluru gazes inwards to the continental interior, metaphor for a nation’s yearning.'
1 3 y separately published work icon Jesustown Paul Daley , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 21836915 2021 single work novel

'From award-winning journalist Paul Daley comes a gripping multi-generational saga about Australian frontier violence and cultural theft that will capture the national imagination.

'Morally bankrupt popular historian Patrick Renmark leaves London in disgrace after the accidental death of his infant son. With one card left to play, he takes a commission to write the biography of his pioneering anthropologist grandfather.

'With no enthusiasm and even less integrity, Patrick travels to the former mission town in Australia's far north where his grandfather famously brokered 'peace' between the Indigenous people of the area and the white constabulary.

'Of course nothing is as it seems, or as Patrick wants it to be. Unable to lay his own son to rest, Patrick unwillingly becomes part of local lawyer Jericho Bakerman's quest to return the settlement's ancestral remains to Country.' (Publication summary)
1 Fault Lines at the Australian War Memorial Paul Daley , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 80 no. 1 2021;

'When contemplating the historical efficacy of this nation’s secular shrine, the Australian War Memorial, it is best to stand out front in the middle of Anzac Parade, look up towards Mount Ainslie and imagine what was originally intended.' (Introduction)
1 The Australian Book to Read Next : A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston Paul Daley , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 July 2020;

'I frequently reread the Australian novels of my youth – and few more so than George Johnston’s autobiographical “Meredith Trilogy” of My Brother Jack, Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay.' (Introduction)
1 Leah Purcell on Reinventing The Drover's Wife Three Times: 'I Borrowed and Stole from Each' Paul Daley , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 22 December 2019;
— Review of The Drover's Wife : The Legend of Molly Johnson Leah Purcell , 2019 single work novel

'The actor, playwright and screenwriter’s first novel solidifies her take on Henry Lawson’s classic: first a play, now a book, soon a film'

(Source : Abstract)
1 On Cook Paul Daley , 2019 single work biography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 78 no. 4 2019; (p. 62-78)

'Kurnell is a no-fuss, unpretentious place given that it’s supposed to be the cradle of the nation. Stretching along a promontory that looks like a witch’s finger pointing west from the southern shore of Botany Bay, opposite Sydney Airport, Kurnell is a hotchpotch sprawl of fibro modesty and glass-and-steel ambition, where trailered speedboats rest on the verges and Aussie flags snap on front-yard poles. Nestled in Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell overlooks a mass of water lacking the frenetic beauty of luminous sails and green and gold ferries, and of some of the international signature structures of modernity, that characterise that other vast nearby inlet that the colonists instead chose as the harbour for their penal settlement.' (Introduction)
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