Perhaps the only way to describe entering Violet Hull’s inner-city home on a Sunday is to capture it as a…
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Despite extreme fire seasons being heralded as Australia’s “new normal”, it does not seem that current governments have, at least in public fora, turned their minds to the mammoth task of planning for the future — in both an environmental and housing sense.
“People just have to expect that students will sometimes have ‘way out’ views, but those views may ultimately become tomorrow’s orthodoxy, and students have to speak up and have to be involved.”
Tame writes of a life shaped by trauma, but by no means a life defined by it. Instead, a message of love, humour and connection — coexisting with, and overwhelming, the ongoing impacts of child sexual abuse and grooming — emerges.
Grant and I spoke about Country — the notion of a place which transcends something as simple as geography. It is who we are, it is everything that we are.
“Ask yourself if you’d want to write even if a ray of light came out of the sky and said, ‘Nothing you write will ever be published.’ If the answer is yes, you’re a writer.”
“Asian Australians (and other racial minorities, for that matter), are then fed the idea that if we’re model citizens—if we’re successful, well-behaved, and grateful, then we’ll get to belong. But that’s not true, either.”
“As Australians, we’re all so accustomed to consuming culture about foreign places. I think reading stories set at home can be really powerful. It sort of gives us permission to think of our lives as worthy of artistic attention.”
Harper’s thrillers bridge the gap between commercial and literary because, in her own words, she is always asking of her characters: “What pressure are they under…what’s keeping them awake at night…what kind of family dynamic do they have?”
“In terms of Drag itself, the only thing it’s really made me do is become even more determined to piss people off.”
