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I'm a historian but Tony Birch's poetry opened my eyes to confronting truths about the past

  • Written by: Anna Clark, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
I'm a historian but Tony Birch's poetry opened my eyes to confronting truths about the pastWilliam Barak, Figures in possum skin cloaks, 1898.Wikimedia Commons

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