27 April 2021

I'm homesick for Australia but it isn't mine anymore

Tara June Winch

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Tara June Winch's speech examines what it means to be Australian right now. Winch calls out a failure not to act but to make change, to confront our violent past. She heeds the need for truth telling and inclusivity in Australian society.

Sydney Writer's Festival, NSW, Gadigal, Eora Nation

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TaraJuneWinch

B. 1983-12-02

Poet, writer

Tara June Winch was born of Wiradjuri and English heritage, who left home at 17 to travel across Australia. In 2004 the manuscript for her first book won the David Unaipon Award. She was chosen for the 2008-2009 Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative in which she was partnered with Nigerian writer and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Winch was an ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Project and is currently ambassador for Children's Ground.

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