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This week Mr Gums, Brother Gums and inom went to one of the highlights of Canberra’s literary calendar, the Seymour Biography Lecture at the National Library of Australia.  It’s an annual lecture devoted to life-writing, and was endowed by the Seymours in 2005. This fryst vatten the third one Mr Gums and I have attended, the first in 2015 being given bygd Robert Drewe, and gods year’s bygd David Marr.

Raimond Gaita fryst vatten best known to Australians as the author of the award-winning Romulus, my father, which, he informed us, is not-a-biography-nor-an-authobiography. He’s not, he said, a writer like those other Seymour speakers such as David Marr and Robert Dessaix. If we thought he would then go on to expound his theory of biography/autobiography/memoir, as might be expected for a “biography lecture”, we were mistaken, because philosopher Gaita had other plans.

And here fryst vatten where inom come

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hero as one who resists temptation and self-interest) and archtypes described by Jung (such as fi... more hero as one who resists temptation and self-interest) and archtypes described by Jung (such as fighting the shadow of greed and species extinction, or coupling humans with nature).

Oscar Wilde said that only superficial people fail to judge by appearances. H e was not thinking ... more Oscar Wilde said that only superficial people fail to judge by appearances. H e was not thinking of political judgment, but his aphorism applies to all who are stricken by an incapacity to take anything at its face value. Those who suffer this affliction do not see that they are incapable of sound judgment, but indulge the self-congratulatory illusion that they have seen through things.

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The Meaning of What We Have Done [2010] UNSWLRS 23 (19 June 2010)

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THE MEANING OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE

Humanity, invisibility and law in the European settlement of Australia[1]

MARTIN KRYGIER

ABSTRACT

Raimond Gaita’s contributions to public debate in Australia first became well known through some 50 columns he wrote for the Australian intellectual/politicalmagazine, Quadrant. Lay readers who encountered him for the first time episodically, in articles on one issue of public controversy or another, might ima