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Anson Camerson suggests that the 'standing of Australian literature can only be enhanced by bribery in its creation'. To test his theory, he offers Queenslanders, and the cotton industry in particular, the opportunity to bribe him in relation to a novel he is writing in which the northern state is portrayed in a less than glamorous light.
This column comments on Rod Moss's Hard Light of Day and on his exhibition Mirror, held at the Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, 21 July - 21 August 2011.