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25 Jun 05:55am

Filed under: Book Prices, Deregulation, Literature, Tim Winton

Tim Winton is the master of fiction. But his latest tirades prove he doesn’t understand when reality kicks in.

Last week Winton won a fourth Miles Franklin Award for his book, Breath. And to celebrate he used his moment in the spotlight to attack the Productivity Commission’s review to scrap protection for Australia’s book industry.

Parallel import restrictions require books sold in Australia to be produced in Australia. It’s an idea so bad the New South Wales government could have thought of it.

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Bumka says:

12:41pm | 08/02/12

What do you mean she was very “un auartslian”? what is it with people and that expression? What is it with Australians and that expression? It all comes back to all that “Australian Identity” (meaning WHITE identity) twaddle from upper class north shore conservatives. (i know this comment is slightly… Read more »
LORE says:

06:54pm | 07/02/12

“Cultural Cringe”, I like that word. I am an Asian iimgmrant living in so-called posh Sydney North Shore suburbs for only 20 years and I was already infected with that disease.(I rather read Gosh or Roy or Rushdie than Winton or Grenville.)Though, I think that could be the pleasant side… Read more »

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