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AUSTRALIA

300 Australians that no one wants
- John Schumann
- 23 October 2024
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There are approximately 300 Australians like Will currently held in forensic disability facilities, hospitals, mental health facilities, the prison system and providers of last resort. After two decades of seclusion, his story reveals a broken system where lives deteriorate, not improve, despite efforts for reform.
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ENVIRONMENT

The true quiet Australians
- Brian Matthews
- 17 August 2023
Red gum, this ‘smooth-barked large tree that gives watercourses all over Australia their Australian feel’, seemed intent on bobbing up in my life one way or another, sometimes as a result of sheer luck or coincidence. (From 2021)
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Wit, irony and the Australian vernacular: Remembering Brian Matthews
- John Schumann
- 15 June 2022
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Most of us, when pushed, can name a couple of teachers who had a profound influence on our lives. For me, Brian Matthews was one such teacher. I enrolled in English at Flinders University in 1972. On asking the enrolling officer whether anybody was ‘doing anything about Lawson’, I was directed to the office of Brian Matthews, a recent appointment to the English Department. ‘I hear you know something about Lawson,’ I said, leaning in his doorway.
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ENVIRONMENT

The true quiet Australians
- Brian Matthews
- 03 June 2021
6 Comments
Red gum, this ‘smooth-barked large tree that gives watercourses all over Australia their Australian feel’, seemed intent on bobbing up in my life one way or another, sometimes as a result of sheer luck or coincidence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The romance of the song
- Brian Matthews
- 06 October 2020
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He came in, sat down, and we talked about Henry Lawson. He was well read in the field, having encountered Lawson not only in a small way at school but especially at home where his mother had given him an anthology of Australian stories and he’d come across ‘The Drover’s Wife’. We hit it off: he was pleasant, engaging and witty and we resolved to continue our talk in the near future.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Teaching literature to rock stars
- Brian Matthews
- 01 February 2013
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He appeared in the doorway of my study one day in 1971 and asked if I was the one who was starting a course in Australian literature. His voice was soft and melodic, his accent beautifully Irish. Born in Belfast in 1947, he had grown up amid the horrors of 'The Troubles' and would in later years refer to himself as 'a recovering Catholic'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Bio-picks
- James Griffin
- 06 July 2006
James Griffin reviews the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.16, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds.
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AUSTRALIA

Truth, politics and the Fourth Estate
- Morag Fraser
- 14 May 2006
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
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AUSTRALIA

Truth? You can’t handle the truth
- John Schumann
- 14 May 2006
Morag Fraser and John Schumann reflect on the crucial role of truth in our society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Needlework
- Brian Matthews
- 23 April 2006
Although a Delta Goodrem launch would no doubt draw a larger attendance, perhaps a celebration of Henry Lawson, would be a more notable and important Australian event.
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Keywords: John Schumann