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  • Published 20170502
  • ISBN: 9781925498356
  • Extent: 264pp
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This piece by Sam Vincent, published by Griffith Review in 2017, was a precursor to his 2022 book My Father and Other Animals.

WHEN WE WERE kids, my sisters and I weren’t allowed to watch TV during dinner. The risk of seeing John Howard was too much for my parents to bear. In the months after he became prime minister, Mum and Dad wore their opposition proudly, chortling of his imminent demise and slapping a ‘Don’t blame me I voted Labor’ sticker on our dusty family van.

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