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David Marr

David Marr is a journalist, commentator and biographer whose latest book is Killing for Country, a personal reckoning with Australia’s frontier wars.

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David Marr has written for Fairfax and the Guardian. He presented the ABC’s Media Watch for some years and appeared often on Q&A and Insiders. His many books include lives of Patrick White and Garfield Barwick. Among the half dozen Quarterly Essays he has written are The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell. Black Inc recently published My Country, stories, speeches and essays about the Australia he has been exploring over 45 years. His latest book is Killing for Country, a personal reckoning with Australia’s frontier wars.

 

David Marr

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