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The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

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Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity.

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In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

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The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

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Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

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Since woodchipping began 32 years ago, Tasmanians have watched as one extraordinary place after another has been sacrificed. Beautiful places, holy places, lost not only to them, but forever.

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Under Howard, federal government support for black Australia slowly dried up. Services were slashed, native title restricted.

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History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more.

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A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

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In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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