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"It was a matter of interest to me that many Australian academics seemed to think the only creative works of any consequence in South-East Asia were novels set in villages or kampongs, presented mostly in a simplistic way by decent but essentially parochial storytellers about deprivations referable to callous European rule" ....
In his latest book, Fact and Fiction, Nicholas Hasluck draws upon the diaries he kept while serving as a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. These provide not only a picture of judicial life but also an account of writing Dismissal, his novel about the final days of the Whitlam government. What follows are thoughts and recollectionss on the events of and before November 11, 1975 ....
There is much to be had in Che's Last Embrace despite being a relatively slim volume. A page-turner and rollicking read, Nicholas Hasluck also offers us a paradigm for the nonsense that can pass for intellectual thinking in current Australian culture. Overall, as many critics have previously observed, this is a further demonstration of his perspicacity as a writer ....
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