This evening I watched Australian Story, about Richard Flanagan, the Tasmanian novelist. As a writer, as a person and as a Tasmanian, I found it very inspiring.It seems funny in a way that a fiction writer is such a steadfast truth teller, but I think telling the truth is what good fiction does.
Flanagan is a brave man who has written some of the best journalism I’ve read. He has spoken without hysteria against a corrupt and vindictive government and its allies in big business. You might think that’s no big deal, but sadly, in Tasmania, it is.
As a farmer, as a doctor, as a person and as a Tasmanian, I find you very inspiring.
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