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Richard Flanagan

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

– Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

– Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.

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Richard Flanagan

Black Saturday reminded many Australians of what they know only too well: that of all the advanced economies, Australia is perhaps the one most vulnerable to climate change.

– Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan – Kevin07 – exceeded in its banality only by its success.

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Richard Flanagan

Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age – perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent – who painted them, what they mean.

– Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

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Richard Flanagan

The Bradshaws’ is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma – some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

– Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long – wisely, I felt – shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.

– Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

We like love – we love love – but perhaps its only meaning lies in its ubiquitous meaninglessness. We apprehend it, we feel it, and we think we know it, yet we cannot say what we mean by it.

– Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

Of all the love stories ever published, I have – realistically – read very few.

– Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet – in many respects, a charlatan masquerading as a genius who turned out to be a genius.

– Richard Flanagan

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