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The one lucky winner becomes expected to dish out pithy little rhyming ditties to celebrate public events. Every time an official gets out of a car they’ll be expected to be there with a notepad, ready to compose a tawdry couplet in adoration.

But the lack of Australian narratives or genre development about a formative period of many of our lives limits our ability to use literature and stories to make sense of our own experiences or view them reflected back at us.