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First Nations Writing
Meanjin 1977 to Today
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This is writing about Meanjin, by Meanjin, as selected by Jeanine Leane and Dan Bourchier. First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today captures the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait writers who have shaped the national conversation across peoples, place and time, showcasing the richness of First...
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This is writing about Meanjin, by Meanjin, as selected by Jeanine Leane and Dan Bourchier.
First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today captures the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait writers who have shaped the national conversation across peoples, place and time, showcasing the richness of First Nations writing and ideas that reflect on the past even as it imagines a future built on respect, fairness and truth.
It includes work by poets, public intellectuals, writers, philosophers, critics, and social commentators that altogether show what it is to be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person in Australia then, and now.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780522882001
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 November 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Melbourne University Press
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Dan Bourchier is a senior newsreader at the ABC and a passionate advocate for equity, especially for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the LGBTQIA+ community. Born on Warumungu Country, he has worked for various media outlets over a thirty-year career. Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet, and academic from New South Wales. Her poetry collection Dark Secrets After Dreaming won the Scanlon Prize, and her novel Purple Threads won the David Unaipon Award. Jeanine has won multiple poetry awards, including the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize and the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award. She teaches at the University of Melbourne.
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