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Welcome to AustralianReader.com - new release fiction and nonfiction literature, poetry and scripts by Australian authors.
Take the time to look around and maybe also visit our blog, Wet Ink for Hungry Minds.
Previously
Why Australia needs a "burka ban"/Public Facial Disclosure by James Mangisi Senator Cory Belammy really seemed to open a can of worms with his recent calls for an Aussie ban on the burqa. I had personally thought that this would never be a discussion that would be had in Australia because we don't share the strong secular values that kicked off the French who led the debate in Europe. That said, I'm thrilled that this discussion is at Australian dinner tables because it means another crucial step towards us achieving social, political and perhaps legal modernity.... >>
The Gravy Had Dried up by Troy Cartwright Claire was looking at the reflection of herself in a knife. Her blue eyes were staring straight back at her. She was examining the speckles of yellow sprayed about her iris. She watched her pupils dilate as a cloud passed over the sun.... >>
The Waist Land by Gary Langford I will meet you here honestly,
without losing a single sense,
regardless of a thousand small hesitations,
where brevity is lost in terror.... >>
The Melbourne Arsonist by Gary Langford He walks along the streets of childhood.
He ponders the sight of a ten years old; himself.
The kid is lighting a fire and chuckling.
The fumes are untouchable.... >>
Crow by Barbara De Franceschi I am a requiem/ dark and mournful.
In a murder of itinerant knowing
I gather as a common pest,
the ground at least is kind,
the sky wooed by swathes of sheen.... >>
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