I don’t know why some people seem to think voting is a great imposition. I love lining up and watching the person behind the table pick up the ruler and find my name. There’s a little warm glow of being one tiny thread in the great muddled ball of string that is the democratic process. Always, in the queue there’s a particular feeling: pleased, proud, everyone hugging to ourselves the little ... (read more)
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is the author of sixteen books ranging across the genres of fiction, biography, and memoir. Her most recent book is A Room Made of Leaves (2020), a fictionalised memoir of Elizabeth Macarthur, which won the NSW Premier’s Award for Fiction.