Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Ashley Kalagian Blunt discussing her memoir How to Be Australian.

Ashley Kalagian Blunt escaped the positively arctic climate of Winnipeg to study in Australia. How to be Australian is her journey to becoming an Australian citizen, trying to convince her partner Steve to pack up his life and move and figuring out what this country of strange noises and even stranger birds is all about. Ashley has penned an outsider’s view on life down that explores our history and our present and what it might mean to come to terms with them to become Australian.

Join me as we discover Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s How to be Australian.