Interview with
Matthew Condon

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  • Published 20120306
  • ISBN: 9781921922008
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

This is a really lengthy, epic piece of writing. How do you go about collecting the information and choosing what to include?

It could have been longer. From the outset, I understood intuitively there’s an entire book – a non-fiction book – in the [2011] Queensland disasters. The great narrative of that disaster has yet to be written. I’m sure it will be in the future.

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