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Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

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Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn’t.

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I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

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May 25, 2024

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

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May 25, 2024

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn’t.

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