We’re a migrant nation made up of people who’ve been torn out of other worlds, and you’d think we would have some compassion. Richard Flanagan Read Quote
Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only to them, but forever. Richard Flanagan Read Quote
The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. Richard Flanagan Read Quote
If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. Richard Flanagan Read Quote
I believe in the verb, not the noun – I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write. Richard Flanagan Read Quote
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 Read Quote
