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'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
Production Details
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Produced by Commonplace at the Queen's Hall, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 7-24 May 2008. Director: Peter Houghton.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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The Future Australian Race
Melbourne
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A. H. Massina
,
1877
Z524204
1877
single work
short story
satire
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.
Works about this Work
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A Turn-Up for the Books
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 6 May 2008; (p. 13) -
The Judge and the Firebrand
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australian , 2 May 2008; (p. 10)
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The Judge and the Firebrand
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Australian , 2 May 2008; (p. 10) -
A Turn-Up for the Books
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 6 May 2008; (p. 13)
Last amended 26 Sep 2008 11:12:42
Settings:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- 1870s
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