'It's political': Michael Robotham and Peter Carey accuse Morrison government of abandoning authors

Robotham tells parliamentary inquiry that writers are seen as ‘elites’ whose ‘existence needs to be crushed’

Celebrated Australian crime writer Michael Robotham has delivered a scathing assessment of the Morrison government’s support for literature, in a submission to the parliamentary inquiry into Australia’s creative and cultural industries and institutions.

Last week Robotham became the first Australian-born writer to collect the British Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger prize twice, for his psychological thriller Good Girl, Bad Girl.

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