Esther Anatolitis is the editor of Meanjin, honorary associate professor at RMIT School of Art and a member of the National Gallery of Australia Governing Council. She is the author of Place, Practice, Politics (2021) and editor of the anthology Essays that Changed Australia: Meanjin 1940 to today (2023). Her latest book, When Australia Became a Republic, will be published later this year. 

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