Rock (by Aaron Smith)
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A journalist's reckoning with Australia's edge
Aaron Smith spent years as editor, and sometimes paperboy, of the Torres News, Australia's northernmost newspaper, before it closed in 2019 after 63 years serving the Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal communities it covered.
In this memoir he writes of moving from suburban Australia to Thursday Island, where he became a cultural minority, and of the encounters with local figures and unresolved history that reshaped his ...
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A journalist's reckoning with Australia's edge
Aaron Smith spent years as editor, and sometimes paperboy, of the Torres News, Australia's northernmost newspaper, before it closed in 2019 after 63 years serving the Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal communities it covered.
In this memoir he writes of moving from suburban Australia to Thursday Island, where he became a cultural minority, and of the encounters with local figures and unresolved history that reshaped his sense of the nation's character and its uncertain future.
Suited to readers of Australian narrative non-fiction who are drawn to frontier communities, journalism and honest reflection on national identity.
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