Short Black 1 The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom
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The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan’s perceptive, hilarious, searing exposé of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful.
Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind
Richard Flanagan
RICHARD FLANAGAN was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961. His novels—Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Overall Best Book)—have been published in 26 countries. He also directed the feature film of The Sound of One Hand Clapping and most recently collaborated with director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) on the screenplay of Luhrmann’s forthcoming epic, Australia.
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Short Black 1 The Australian Disease - Richard Flanagan
SHORT BLACKS are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind.
SHORT BLACKS
1 Richard Flanagan The Australian Disease:
On the decline of love and the rise of non-freedom
2 Karen Hitchcock Fat City
3 Noel Pearson The War of the Worlds
4 Helen Garner Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice
5 John Birmingham
The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999
6 Anna Krien Booze Territory
7 David Malouf The One Day
8 Simon Leys Prosper: A voyage at sea
9 Robert Manne
Julian Assange: The cypherpunk revolutionary
10 Les Murray Killing the Black Dog
11 Robyn Davidson No Fixed Address
12 Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow
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Copyright © Richard Flanagan 2011
Richard Flanagan asserts his right to be known as the author of this work.
Originally presented as Liberty Victoria’s Alan Missen Oration. Published in Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World, Black Inc., 2011.
This edition published 2015.
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Flanagan, Richard, 1961– author. The Australian disease : on the decline of love and the rise of non–freedom / Richard Flanagan. 9781863957618 (paperback) 9781921870491 (ebook) Short blacks ; no. 1. Social psychology–Australia. Attitude (Psychology)–Australia. Conformity–Australia. Australia–Politics and government–21st century. Australia–Social conditions–21st century.
306.0994
Cover and text design by Peter Long.
RICHARD FLANAGAN’s most recent novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, won the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
The Australian Disease was originally presented as Liberty Victoria’s Alan Missen Oration, doubling as the Closing Address of the 2011 Melbourne Writers’ Festival.
Good evening. I am afraid Richard Flanagan couldn’t be here tonight and so I am here in his place. My name is Craig Thomson. You might have heard a lot in recent times about another Craig Thomson. I am not him. I am just a run-of-the-mill bloke who likes prostitutes. A lot. They’re great. Really, really great. God I’ve had some fun. You can do anything if you pay. It’s incredible. I even had a Julie Bishop once. She said, You want the stare? I said, You get what