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    Australia Day

    Written by Stan Grant

    Narrated by Stan Grant

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    'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.'


    Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends.

    In this book, Australia Day, his long-awaited follow up to Talking to My Country, Stan talks about our country, about who we are as a nation, about the indigenous struggle for belonging and identity in Australia, and what it means to be Australian. A sad, wise, beautiful, reflective and troubled book, Australia Day asks the questions that have to be asked, that no else seems to be asking. Who are we? What is our country? How do we move forward from here?

    Praise for Talking to My Country:

    'A story so essential and salutary to this place that it should be given out free at the ballot box' The Australian
    'Deeply disturbing, profoundly moving' Hobart Mercury
    'Grant will be an important voice in shaping this nation' The Saturday Paper

    Talking to My Country won the 2016 Walkley Book Award and the Special Award at the 2016 Heritage Awards, and was shortlisted in the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, the Nib Waverley Library Awards and the 2017 ABIA Awards.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 23, 2019
    ISBN9781460797921
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    Australia Day
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    Stan Grant

    Stan has been a professor of Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University and in August 2023 was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Constructive Institute Asia Pacific in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, dedicated to working with media organisations, citizens and advocacy groups, faith-based organisations, thought leaders and political figures to improve the quality of public discourse.

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      Profound and powerful collection of essays about Australia's relationship with her Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.