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Anne Fairbairn argues: 'Now that the federal parliament has formally said "Sorry" to indigenous Australias, I believe we should also be saying "Thanks" as a mark of respect'.
(p. 25-26)
Note: With title: A Poet Says 'Thanks' to the Indigenous People of Australia
Anne Fairbairn reports on an evening with Lebanese poet and diplomat Maher Kheir, held at the Street Theatre, Canberra, 11 February 2008. During the course of the evening Fairbairn discussed Kheir's poetry, read a number of his poems in Arabic and read her 'English "transcreations" of each poem'. (Poems indexed separately.)