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Griffith Review #1
Insecurity in the New World Order
The first issue of Griffith REVIEW is a unique collection of reportage, analysis, memoir, photography, fiction, and poetry.
Essays by leading writers and thinkers explore what the new world order may mean for Australia and expose sources of fear and insecurity.
Writers include: John Birmingham, Norman Swan, Frank Moorhouse, Pat Weller, Geraldine Doogue, Chalmers Johnson, Irris Makler, Graeme Dobelle, Allan Gyngell, Michael McKernan, William Tow, Adrian Vickers, Charles Firth, Eva Sallis, Margaret Coffey, mtc cronin and Andrew Belk.
Essays by leading writers and thinkers explore what the new world order may mean for Australia and expose sources of fear and insecurity.
Writers include: John Birmingham, Norman Swan, Frank Moorhouse, Pat Weller, Geraldine Doogue, Chalmers Johnson, Irris Makler, Graeme Dobelle, Allan Gyngell, Michael McKernan, William Tow, Adrian Vickers, Charles Firth, Eva Sallis, Margaret Coffey, mtc cronin and Andrew Belk.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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About the author
John Birmingham
77Ìýbooks1,134ÌýfollowersJohn Birmingham grew up in Ipswich, Queensland and was educated at St Edmunds Christian Brother's College in Ipswich and the University of Queensland in Brisbane. His only stint of full time employment was as a researcher at the Defence Department. After this he returned to Queensland to study law but he did not complete his legal studies, choosing instead to pursue a career as a writer. He currently lives in Brisbane.
While a law student he was one of the last people arrested under the state's Anti Street March legislation. Birmingham was convicted of displaying a sheet of paper with the words 'Free Speech' written on it in very small type. The local newspaper carried a photograph of him being frogmarched off to a waiting police paddy wagon.
Birmingham has a degree in international relations.
While a law student he was one of the last people arrested under the state's Anti Street March legislation. Birmingham was convicted of displaying a sheet of paper with the words 'Free Speech' written on it in very small type. The local newspaper carried a photograph of him being frogmarched off to a waiting police paddy wagon.
Birmingham has a degree in international relations.
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