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Australia Day

By: Stan Grant
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'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.'


Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends.

In this book, Australia Day, his long-awaited follow up to Talking to My Country, Stan talks about our country, about who we are as a nation, about the indigenous struggle for belonging and identity in Australia, and what it means to be Australian. A sad, wise, beautiful, reflective and troubled book, Australia Day asks the questions that have to be asked, that no else seems to be asking. Who are we? What is our country? How do we move forward from here?

Praise for Talking to My Country:

'A story so essential and salutary to this place that it should be given out free at the ballot box' The Australian
'Deeply disturbing, profoundly moving' Hobart Mercury
'Grant will be an important voice in shaping this nation' The Saturday Paper

Talking to My Country won the 2016 Walkley Book Award and the Special Award at the 2016 Heritage Awards, and was shortlisted in the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, the Nib Waverley Library Awards and the 2017 ABIA Awards.

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Really thought provoking and heart felt discussion. Very engaging and I would encourage everyone to read/listen to Stan Grant's Australia Day book.

Thoughtfully written and read from the Heart.

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I’ve always been interested in what Stan Grant has to say about the many things he has chosen to discuss.
He has a powerful, considered and well informed perspective, and he more often than not leaves me pondering the depths of all he has said.
In the context of “Australia Day” his commentary around Australian identity, constitutional revision and recognition, indigenous rights, stereotypes, and the fullness of Australia’s history – including in detail his own family’s story - his insights are profound, compelling and deeply moving.
I feel as though, through communing with this narrative, I am enriched as a human being and as an Australian.
Spending time with his words and experience has been important in expanding my understanding of the critical issues he covers.
Despite the fact it was published in 2019 and therefore does not cover his explicit reaction to the failed referendum of 2023 it is in no way diminished. His position and reaction are wholly predictable and indicated by what he so beautifully yet sadly expresses.
This is an important book. A must read/listen.

A Voice for a Better Australia

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every single Australian should read and listen to this. Tell the truth. it will set us free.

so important

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Any such review will be inadequate in describing this profound work. Everyone who lives in this land will be challenged by this book to wrestle, engage and witness the beautiful and commanding invitation to reflect on our collective story. Highly recommended reading.

Astonishingly direct, generous and enlightening

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An important read for all Australians. Stan Grant articulates clearly the impact of colonisation and its impacts today.

An important read for all Australians

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