The ‘Bastard of Bingil Bay’ features on no banknote or coin, nor is he listed in any roll-call of ‘important Australians’, and yet, if it were not for John Büsst, it is likely that twenty-odd national parks and rainforest reserves on the far north-east coast of Queensland would not be so designated and might in fact have been obliterated. It is also probable that, without Büsst, today’ ... (read more)
Anna Krien
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Anna Krien is the author of Act of Grace (Black Inc., 2019), Night Games: Sex, power and sport (Black Inc, 2013) and Into the Woods: The battle for Tasmania’s forests (Black Inc., 2010), and Quarterly Essays, Us and Them: On the importance of animals and The Long Goodbye: Coal, coral and Australia's climate deadlock (Quarterly Essay, 2012 & 2017). She is a regular contributor to The Monthly magazine and The Saturday Paper.