Talking with Jeanine Leane gave me so much to think about. We covered what it was like to study and write in Canberra in the 1980s, the role of writing groups in her writing process, the difference between racism and white privilege, the understanding (or lack thereof) of Indigenous Australians amongst settler critics and publishers, and the questions she never gets asked in interviews.

Show notes

• The Ngunnawal Lecture 2015: Jeanine’s speech at the University of Canberra
• The Us Mob writing group
• The Distribution of Settlement: Appropriation and Refusal in Australian Literature and Culture by Michael Griffiths
• White critics don’t know how to deal with the golden age of Indigenous stories by Alison Whittaker