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I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.
If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.
I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.
In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.
In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle.
In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.
John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.
Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.
My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.
My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
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