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Jul 2022
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The Book Club: Celebrating Australian li...

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Reading Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and Patrick White's The Vivisector with critic Geordie Williamson - and with words from the writers themselves, as well as other voices and commentators from the ABC Archives  
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