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An excerpt from The State of our Creative Nation, the 2010 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture that I delivered at the State Library of Victoria on Thursday 21 October: “When it was over, the performers joined Keating on stage in an exuberant throng. The newspapers the next morning showed a photograph of the Prime Minister, wearing a [...] I am honoured to have been short-listed for the non-fiction category of this award, along with several other wonderful memoirs by women writers. The winner is announced on August 27. Just in time for Mother’s Day, the paperback edition. With a new chapter. And a list of the addresses of the key places in the book (people have been visiting them!) and lots of quotes from nice reviews of the book from when it first appeared. With the same beautiful cover as the hardcopy. Price: [...] I am very honoured to have been selected to be part of this program, in which libraries across Victoria encourage people to read the listed books. Read more about the program here I have posted some of my recent speeches: AN ARTIST LOST: REDISCOVERING CONSTANCE STOKES DCA DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP BRIEFING SWB 2009 OPENING THE STORY OF THE STORY The Lost Mother has been well and truly launched into the world with great events in Sydney and Melbourne as well as smaller events in bookshops in Canberra and elsewhere. I will soon be posting photographs from these events on this site. In Melbourne the Governor General, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AC launched the [...] |
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