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Richard Flannagan is best known for his catalogue of popular novels, but this year he published Toxic - which examines the salmon farming industry in Tasmania.
The book makes some disturbing accusations, but the industry has responded that the book includes selective claims, some of them wrong and many made without sufficient context.
Guests: Richard Flanagan in conversation with Laura Tingle
What does the Australian country town of Gundagai make you think of? The statue of the "dog on the tuckerbox"? The old folksong, Along the road to Gundagai? Or do you think of the great flood of 1852 – the deadliest in our history - and the remarkable heroism of two Aboriginal men who saved...
Published 01/14/22
What it is like to be a feminist in the public eye? A discussion from the 2021 Sydney Writers Festival with Laurie Penny author of Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults addresses, Journalist Virginia Trioli, who has published a revised version of her book Generation F: Why We Still...
Published 01/13/22