Griffith Review 47 Looking West

Griffith Review 47
Looking West

Edited by JULIANNE SCHULTZ & ANNA HAEBICH
Edition 47 • FEB 2015 • RRP  $27.99 / NZ $35.00

In 2013 Griffith REVIEW published Tasmania – The Tipping Point? which went on to be our bestselling edition to date. In 2015 we move our gaze to Western Australia in Looking West.

Western Australia is central to national prosperity. Perth has grown into a boomtown the likes of which Australia hasn’t seen since the 1850s, and some of the world’s richest people now hark from WA. But what will be left when the mining boom deflates?

‘When we became the richest state, the boom state, the engine of the nation’s great good fortune, the onset of smugness was almost instant…There were two gospels holding sway on the western frontier: the first was Unbridled Development and like unto it the second – Western Australian exceptionalism. And many were faithful.’ – Tim Winton (in interview)

The contributors to Griffith Review 47: Looking West provide rich insights into the history, environment, politics and creative impulses that inform the state. They explore development and the dispossessed; immigrants and indigenous; plunder and possession; corruption and conservation; creativity and isolation; football and sharks.

WA is on the cusp of reconciling the past and creating a new future. Looking West will challenge what you think you know about the state.

Contributors include Carmen Lawrence, Shaun Tan, Brooke Davis, Nick Allbrook, David Whish-Wilson, Kim Scott, Ashley Hay, John Kinsella, Steve Kinnane, Terri-ann White and Helen Trinca. With an exclusive interview with Tim Winton.

A collaboration between Griffith Review and Curtin University