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y separately published work icon The Future Australian Race single work   short story   satire  
Issue Details: First known date: 1877... 1877 The Future Australian Race
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The narrator declares that 'The quality of a race of beings is determined by two things: food and climate'. In musing on what the future Australian race will be like, the narrator looks to the past and the present as indicators of the likely progression that will eventuate.

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[Untitled] Marcus Clarke , 1990 extract satire humour (The Future Australian Race)
— Appears in: The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature 1990; (p. 338-341)
The Future Australian Race Susan Gore , Bill Garner , 2008 single work drama

'The Future Australian Race' 'explores the relationship between Ned Kelly's hanging judge Redmond Barry and the bohemian writer of For the Term of his Natural Life, Marcus Clarke. The two face off among the books from opposite sides of a divide that still haunts Australia'.

Source: State Library of Victoria website, http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/
Sighted: 19/05/2008
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'Dystopia' : A History of the Genre in (and) Australia Amy Schoonens , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Beyond the Dark : Dystopian Texts in the Secondary English Classroom 2020; (p. 8-34)
Cultural Politics Alan Lawson , Ken L. Goodwin , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature 1990; (p. 331-337)
Marcus Clarke : Australian Author and Journalist Henry Gyles Turner , 1885 single work biography
— Appears in: Once a Month , 15 October vol. 3 no. 4 1885; (p. 241-246)
The Future Australian Race 1877 single work review
— Appears in: The Leader (Supplement) , 29 December 1877; (p. 1)
— Review of The Future Australian Race Marcus Clarke , 1877 single work short story
The Future Australian Race 1877 single work review
— Appears in: The Leader (Supplement) , 29 December 1877; (p. 1)
— Review of The Future Australian Race Marcus Clarke , 1877 single work short story
Marcus Clarke : Australian Author and Journalist Henry Gyles Turner , 1885 single work biography
— Appears in: Once a Month , 15 October vol. 3 no. 4 1885; (p. 241-246)
Cultural Politics Alan Lawson , Ken L. Goodwin , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature 1990; (p. 331-337)
'Dystopia' : A History of the Genre in (and) Australia Amy Schoonens , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Beyond the Dark : Dystopian Texts in the Secondary English Classroom 2020; (p. 8-34)
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