Thomas Keneally
@ThomasKeneally
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Les was in the tradition of wonderful bush contrarians, and raised that stance to immortal eloquence.
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Speaking at 10 a.m Thursday at Writers Fest but daughter Meg is speaking at 12.00. What a grand day for an aging writer.
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Les Murray, magnificent poet, RIP. Would have been great had he got the Nobel wasted on Dillon. Spiky bloke, but genius!.
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@ThomasKeneally For Peter Dutton:.The Labor woman pleads a missing limb./What missing thing in you makes you so grim?.
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Congratulations@KeneallyMeg for @PairRaggedClaws articles in the Australian for new book Fled.
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Robust,briiliant artist Wendy sharp has series on asylum seekers beginning mid- February, Sydney, run by Asylum Seeker Centre.
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US critic sd, 'A novl is a fiction of uncertain length with something wrong with it!' I wouldn't miss the joys of this quest though.
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Friends, forgive lack of postings. Finishing novel, which means something only to me. Sorry. I think it's a ripper.but am probably deluded.
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To give credit, Tony A has been appropriately restrained. Sadly, for the two noble, young dead, the casualty rate is %100. RIP.
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After frightful deaths, a woman saying, 'I ride with you' helps humanise us again.
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Chris Bowen, as'lm seeker-basher, on Lateline as our prospective future leader. Evasive and weasel -worded. God save us!.
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Revenge, deceit, ideology trump the ABC. And Murdoch smiles. This is the victory of smallness over us, and --I hope-- a temporary one.
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See a great new iniative, We're Better Than This, to free the wire-trapped children, which some are happy to call policy. @wbttaus.
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Ebola's Alfred E. Newman, 'What, me worry?' is Tony A, who says he gave at the office, and that's the limit. It's only Africans after all.
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Gough never withdrew from Australia, and was a model and earnest public citizen for the past 40 yrs. See a piece on that, today's SMH.
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Gough goes, so does Medibank Private. Little blue discs meant to console us for transformation of public capital into just another racket.
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Vale, Gough, a man who in a hundred days re-made Australia. Don't forget he flew hundreds of missions in WWII and never flaunted that.
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You heard it at the Goa festival, Anil Kumar. I predicted Richard Flanagan's win. The Narrow Rd to the Deep North too good not to win.
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Obersturmfuhrer Matthias, my wife is a superb financial brian. Carry on with your labelling in her presence, and see how you go.
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J. Birmingham great in SMH. Bring back M.Carlton and give us double the joy. Lay off Hayne, for God's sake. SMH - Sydney Morning Hayne.
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