The Best Australian Essays 2017.

Intro -- Titel Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Extravagant, Aggressive Birds Down Under -- Lessons from Camels -- Endlings -- Hello, Stranger -- Commonplace -- A Makarrata Declaration: A Declaration of Our Country -- Uluru Statement from the Heart -- The Tamarind Is Always Sour -- Bonfire of the Narratives -- Killing Our Media -- The Art of Dependency -- In Defence of the Bad, White Working Class -- People Power at the Ponderosa -- Bad Writer -- A Short History of the Italian Language -- Up a Wombat's Freckle -- How Not to Speak Polish -- Now No-One Here Is Alone -- Pluripotent -- House of Flowers -- Salt Blood -- Peasant Dreaming -- The Bystander -- Why She Broke -- Helen Garner's Savage Self-Scrutiny -- Zama: Life at the Limits of Empire -- Art Walks a Tightrope -- Towards Joy -- Publication Details -- Notes on Contributors -- Back Cover.

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