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Richard Flanagan on proposed changes to book importation in Australia

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03 June 2009In his Closing Address to the Sydney Writers' Festival, Richard Flanagan mounts an impassioned and stinging attack on the the proposal to allow parallel importation of books into Australia.

His talk draws on subjects as broad as his cousin Arthur "Mad Dog" Kemp, William Tyndale's Bible, and the government's tacit support of retail market oligopolies. Flanagan builds a compelling case about the damaging impacts of the proposed book importation changes on a strong and vital industry of independent local publishers, and on writers themselves.

Part 1. 24 mins

Part 2. 20 mins

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