Letters to the Editor
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER FOR IMMIGRATION AND BORDER CONTROL
Dear Prime Minister and Minister Dutton,
As writers committed to protecting and defending human rights, and as citizens of conscience, we the undersigned wish to express our deep abhorrence of the ongoing mistreatment of refugees in Australia's offshore detention centres.
A ...
'BATSHIT BORING BOOKS'
Tim Colebatch's review of my book Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power (November 2015) quotes a comment I made to
CHILDHOOD SEX! Dear Editor, Shannon Burns’s splendid ABR Patrons’ Fellowship essay, ‘The Scientist of His Own Experience: A Profile of Gerard Murnane’, is rich in insights and pithy observations, plus some rather fine photographs (August ...
LEADING THE CHARGE
Dear Editor,
It was welcome indeed to read your editorial setting out Australian Book Review’s full-throated support for the proper payment of young writers (May 2015). In the current economic climate, forging a literary career is extremely difficult. Cu ...
DENNIS POTTER – THE REAL AUTEUR
Dear Editor,
While history and memory and the memory of history all seem to get shorter and shorter every decade, it’s a little surprising that neither James McNamara’s informative essay (
AN HONEST, FIERCE RESPONSE Dear Editor, In his review of John Kinsella’s new book of poe ...
Captain’s choice
Dear Editor,
What a hotchpotch event (‘Vipers and Whistleblowers’, January–February 2015). How can the Prime Minister’s Literary Awar ...
Radiant Young Leaders
Dear Editor,
Are Richard Broinowski (and family) seeking to don the mantle of apologists for the rulers of North Korea (review of Paul French ...
Intimate times
Dear Editor,
Tim Byrne, in his review of Meredith Burgmann’s Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO Files badly misread my complaints about my records. He writes that my [and Gary Foley’s] ‘movements were intimately tracked’. The whole ...