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So Who the Bloody Hell Are We?: The Fair Go

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Is there any myth more pervasive than that of egalitarian Australia? Mates look out for one another and good honest hard work is rewarded in the land of opportunity. Probably best not look too closely at how refugees and Aborigines, women and the workers fare in the Lucky Country. Still, she’ll be right.

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Damien Carrick

Damien Carrick is a lawyer and presenter of Radio National’s The Law Report.

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David Manne

David Manne is a lawyer and migration agent, and Executive Director of the Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre (RILC). He has worked in various capacities assisting refugees and asylum seekers for over 16 years.

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Melissa Lucashenko

Melissa Lucashenko is an award-winning novelist and essayist. She lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation, and writes about the astonishing lives of people on the margins of Australian society – women, Aboriginal people and the poor.

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Stuart Macintyre

Professor Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History and a Laureate Professor of the University of Melbourne.

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Monica Dux

Monica Dux is a Melbourne writer and social commentator. She has published widely on women’s issues and in 2008 she co-authored the book The Great Feminist Denial. She is currently writing a book on pregnancy and motherhood, which will be published by Melbourne University Press in 2013.

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