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Continent Aflame

Responses to an Australian Catastrophe

by Pat AndersonPaul James Paul Komesaroff and others
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Publication Date: 16/11/2020

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"Continent Aflame: Responses to an Australian Catastrophe" assembles multiple responses to the Australian bushfires crisis of 2019-20. The moral imperative generated by the damaged continent, the unprecedented scale of the disaster, compels this response.

Contributors demonstrate that the continent is aflame, both literally and figuratively. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientists, artists, doctors, ecologists, writers and many others are "aflame", in despair, anger and hope.

The book aims to help generate a resolve that comes out of these multiple reactions and which can lead to intense new possibilities.

Contributors include Bruce Pascoe, Susan Norrie, Bill Gammage, Alexis Wright, Ross Gittins, Freya Mathews, Philipa Rothfield, Arnold Zable, Thomas Keneally, Ian Kerridge, Kate Judith, Raimond Gaita, John Funder, Helen Szoke, Stephen Duckett, George Browning, Helen Caldicott, Paul Valent, Mark Beeson, Maithri Goonetilleke, Ross Garnaut, Will Steffen, Lorraine Shannon, Paul Carter, Lionel Bopage, Guy Rundle, Jessica Weir, Catherine Larkins, Philip Freier, James Collett, Tom Griffiths, Vanessa Cavanagh, Stephen Muecke, Miranda Nation, Jane Fisher, Kieran Donaghue, Rimona Kedem, Hugo Muecke, Anne Elvey, and the editors.

ISBN:
9780648855101
9780648855101
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-11-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Palaver Books
Country of origin:
Australia
Sally Gardner

Sally Gardner is a multi-award-winning novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty-two languages.

Her novel Maggot Moon (Hot Key Books) won both the Costa Children's Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal 2013.

Sally's genre-defying novel The Double Shadow (Orion) received great critical acclaim and was also longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2013.

The Red Necklace (shortlisted for 2007 Guardian Book Prize) and The Silver Blade are set during the French Revolution, the film rights for which have been purchased by Dominic West. Sally also won the 2005 Nestle Children's Book Prize for her debut novel I, Coriander.

She is currently writing the popular Wings & CO Fairy Detective Agency Series (Orion) for 7-11 year olds hailed as 'Agatha Christie for kids' and has recently released her latest Young Adult fiction novel, which is a modern gothic tale called Tinder, illustrated by David Roberts (Orion).

Bruce Pascoe

Bruce Pascoe is an Australian Indigenous writer. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, a fisherman and an Aboriginal language researcher.

His books include Fog a Dox, a book for young adults that won the Prime Minister's Literary Awards in 2013, Convincing Ground about the Convincing Ground massacre, and Dark Emu, a book that challenges the claim that pre-colonial Australian Aboriginal peoples were hunter-gatherers.

In 2018, Bruce Pascoe was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

Ross Garnaut

Ross Garnaut is Professorial Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne.

In 2008, he produced the Garnaut Climate Change Review for the Australian government.

He is the author of many books, including the bestselling Dog Days (2013).

Bill Gammage

Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University.

He is best known as author of the ground-breaking The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.

Guy Rundle

Guy Rundle is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Inland Empire: America at the End of the Obama Era, A Revolution in the Making: Robots, 3D Printing, Robots and the Future, 50 People Who Stuffed Up Australia (with Dexter Rightwad), Down to the Crossroads: On the Trail of the 2008 Election and two Quarterly Essays, The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction and Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer.

He has written four hit stage shows for the satirist Max Gillies; has co-written two musicals, All Het Up and Silly Season, the revue Absent Presences and the album Paradoxical Sleep; and was a writer, producer and deviser of numerous TV shows, including Full Frontal, Get A Life, Shark Bay, Comedy Inc. and Vulture.

Rundle's writing has appeared in most major Australian publications, as well as The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Private Eye, Spiked, Jacobin and Penthouse. He served as co-editor of radical bimonthly Arena Magazine for fifteen years and has been a long-time correspondent-at-large for Crikey. His awards include an AWGIE for outstanding contribution to Australian comedy and The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2008.

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