Best Richard Flanagan Sayings
- 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… Australian
- In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact. Aborigines
- In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. Aboriginal
- I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken away. Aborigines
- I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it. Born
- What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness. Bound
- I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. Cecil
- Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the… Aborigines
- Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal… Aboriginal
- The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century. Aborigine
- Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity. Aborigines
- In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. Astonished
- The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging. Crayfish
- 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… Accelerate
- 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… Ago
- Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching in 2000 to… Australia
- Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted. Australia
- History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more. Find
- A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others. All
- In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself. Divine
- Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. Celebrities
- In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. Australia
- Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just… Book
- The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time. Circular
- I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that… Acceptance
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