STRAWS IN THE WIND: Why young people read less / NSW’s Knight with the Mournful Countenance / Journalistic hooliganism / The Easter Rising*

Why young people read lessThe writers’ lobby group PEN (to use a description used by Rosemary Neill in The Australian, March 22, 2007) has just held a forum in Sydney to discuss “Australian literature: does it have a future?”. Well, it did have a modest past, but has it even a present?Professor Elizabeth Webby of the University of Sydney said that Miles Franklin and co. would have been “horrified” by this. Why?Ms Webby produced some telling statistics from her university. In 1980, Ozlit subjects…

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