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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