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Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream
- Narrated by: Stan Grant
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream
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In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of indigenous success - cultural, sporting, intellectual and social - that we see today.
Yet this flourishing coexists with the boys of Don Dale and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation. Grant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life and argues eloquently that history is not destiny, that culture is not static. In doing so he makes the case for a more capacious Australian dream.
'The idea that I am Australian hits me with a thud. It is a blinding self-realisation that collides with the comfortable notion of who I am. To be honest, for an indigenous person it can feel like a betrayal somehow - at the very least a capitulation. We are so used to telling ourselves that Australia is a white country: am I now white? The reality is more ambiguous.... To borrow from Franz Kafka, identity is a cage in search of a bird.' (Stan Grant, The Australian Dream)
Stan Grant is Indigenous Affairs editor for the ABC and chair of Indigenous Affairs at Charles Sturt University. He won the 2015 Walkley Award for coverage of indigenous affairs and is the author of The Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country.
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- Jack
- 17-07-2023
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More people need to hear this story and others like it. Poignant, powerful and moving albeit a little lengthy for most attention spans. Still, it was worth the trouble. Stan Grant deserves the accolades. Bravo
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- Johann Gray
- 09-11-2017
Stan Grant rocks!
I really enjoyed this. Moving, heartbreaking and thought provoking. Stan Grant is very modest considering his great influence.
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- sean maguire
- 22-03-2022
Stan for President of Australia
I'm not aboriginal. I'm not even Australian, yet this book had depth to it that I could feel all the way back to my Irish parents and theirs and beyond. If this could only be read by every person here in this great land, we might finally make progress to be one people.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-03-2022
An Informative Book.
I enjoyed this book. It draws one's attention to the plight of the Aboriginal people from the time the British invaded their land to their struggles & successes through the years. Stan Grant is certainly a success story!
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- KDL
- 19-12-2022
Everyone should listen to this
Thanks Stan.
All Australians could benefit from listening to this, I have. A very balanced narrative, I’m my opinion.
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- David Lovelock
- 10-06-2023
A well balanced, optimistic & realistic tale
I really enjoyed this essay
A window on our past, an observation on our current state and an optimistic view of the future
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