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The Meanjin funding cuts: a graceless coup?

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imageMeanjin has published leading writers, including Patrick White and Peter Carey.Charles Stanford, CC BY-SA

In 1940, in Brisbane, the young journalist Clem Christesen initiated a “desperate attempt” to offer Queensland writers a “modest publishing outlet”. What the country needed (in this second year of WW2) was a literary...

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