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Cringing Toward a New Australianism

June 26, 2018
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Bo Seo and I in Meanjin.

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Australia is the first rich country to be visited by climate catastrophe. We now know that as the climate worsens, it will be Australia, among the rich nations, who suffers first. We no longer need to look overseas for the canaries in the coal mine – Australia’s native birds will do fine, and they have stopped singing.

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Cringing Toward a New Australianism
Jun 26, 2018
Cringing Toward a New Australianism
Jun 26, 2018

The author Richard Flanagan is in Beijing talking to a room full of Australians. Roughly one hundred of them, mostly white, have crowded in to The Bookworm, a bookshop familiar to anyone in Beijing’s small English-language literary scene. Near the front is an enthusiastic Chinese fan, but the rest are members of Beijing’s Australian expat community. They know where Tasmania is, and they know, keenly, that Australia is at the edge of everything else.

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