Tuesday: The Victorian Greens will introduce a bill to parliament to impose a ban on all new gas connections to homes within three years. Plus: why Australia is running out of teachers
, including the former BBC cameraman and Afghanistan expert Peter Jouvenal, wereMichael Winkler: ‘I certainly think publishers aren’t as brave as they should be. Readers are capable of accommodating so much more than we give them.’“I guess I was sick of reading novels that all felt a little bit the same. I wanted to try to see if I could create something different.”Winkler’s cult hit Grimmish
– a glorious form-buster of a book that has earned praise from the likes of JM Coetzee and Helen Garner. Firmly rejected by Australian publishing houses, Winkler’s “exploded nonfiction novel” has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin literary award – the first self-published entry to make the list in the prize’s 65-year history.the final cut of the show to participants
, so Simon Baker is taking it on my word that his episode is an excellent and moving piece of television. The 52-year-old actor had been approached a couple of times to do the show but always said no, “despite my mum, sister and kids saying ‘you should do it’.” Eventually he capitulated: “I thought, I’ll just see what kind of adventure it is and where it will all take me.”so there was no funeral. “It was a horrid, horrid time,” she says. “I was on my own.