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Lech Blaine

@lechblaine

6 months

BAD COP: Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics will be out in two weeks #auspol

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Lech Blaine

@lechblaine

2 years

My hotel in Canberra inexplicably left three unwrapped chocolates at the end of the bed, with the heater blasting. Yesterday, I woke up from a nap and thought that I’d shat myself

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Scott Morrison would piss on your leg and insist that the piss is liquid gold

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Starting a book club specifically to read Scott Morrison’s “Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness”

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“Scott John Morrison – a Pentecostal rugby union fan from the eastern suburbs of Sydney – plagiarised the identity of men like my father … Morrison’s alter ego was a big swinging shtick.” @GuardianAus published a slice from my @quarterly_essay TOP BLOKES

Larrikins, bogans and bullshit artists: is Australia ripe for a blue-collar revolution?

The Coalition has offered a natural home for parochials who want to cast a protest vote against the snobbery of cosmopolitans, writes Lech Blaine. The question is what progressives do next

www.theguardian.com

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“Australia – a nation of self-proclaimed straight-shooters – has been hijacked by a pack of fabricated larrikins and bona fide bullshit artists.” TOP BLOKES - my @quarterly_essay analysing the inauthenticity of Scott Morrison - is officially out today

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4 years

My first book Car Crash: A Memoir is about how I survived a highway collision that killed three of my friends when I was seventeen, and the relationships that kept me alive afterwards. It now has a cover and will be published April 2021

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2 years

Debuting on @QandA tonight. I’ve been memorising my dad’s wise advice: “Don’t make a goose of yourself”

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3 years

Nothing in my life has been the same since watching Alan Jones singing ‘Love Changes Everything’

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“The Game” is a brilliant deconstruction of Scott Morrison’s place in Australian politics. The prose of @mrseankelly is an antidote to the ScoMo persona: such great weight, and never blustering for the sake of it

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This is a gut-wrenching but vital piece of writing by Martin McKenzie-Murray @THEMONTHLY

Grace notes

Grace Tame’s sexual abuse as a child, also experienced by the author, makes policing her manners misguided at best

www.themonthly.com.au

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2 years

“Australia – one of the richest countries on earth – can afford to pay aged care workers a fair wage.” I wrote a feature for @GuardianAus about my mum’s incredible legacy as a foster carer, and harrowing experience in the aged care system

Mum dedicated her life to protecting others. In Australia’s aged care system, she received no such...

My mother picked a particularly inhumane epoch in Australian politics to get sick. When it comes to aged care, something has to give

www.theguardian.com

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4 months

Did the Sydney launch of my Quarterly Essay BAD COP: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics with local hard-man David Marr

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2 years

It’s an honour to do a cover story for @THEMONTHLY I hit the road during the 2022 election campaign. Strap yourself in: it stars a few loose units

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Lech Blaine

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3 years

I’m writing a @quarterly_essay about the true history of the mythical larrikin. It will be published on September 13. Pre-order now via @BlackIncBooks

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(1) “Scott Morrison was on a slippery slope from the Promised Land to rock bottom.” So begins my election essay for @THEMONTHLY The paywall has been lifted today

Teal and loathing: On the campaign trail

The seismic shift that saw voters around the country turn on the Coalition and deliver a Labor victory

www.themonthly.com.au

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3 years

@mrbenjaminlaw Be guided by the spirit of James Maloney

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“Albanese leaves breathing space for the nation to imagine that the election was about them.” The agony and the ecstasy of election night as brilliantly captured by @andrewquilty for my new essay in @THEMONTHLY

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2 years

Had a yack to @PhillipAdams_1 about my new essay for @THEMONTHLY He officially renamed the show ‘LNP’ in memoriam of Scott Morrison. You can listen tonight on @LNLonRN

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3 years

Accidentally recorded a Kevin Rudd-esque rant about my MacBook Air on Otter yesterday. Lockdown going well

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ICYMI: I wrote for @GuardianAus about the aged care system, which should be a central election issue. “We must bear witness to these indignities.”

Mum dedicated her life to protecting others. In Australia’s aged care system, she received no such...

My mother picked a particularly inhumane epoch in Australian politics to get sick. When it comes to aged care, something has to give

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks, but getting CAR CRASH launched by Anna Krien with Helen Garner in the audience was pretty close to the biggest pinch / shit myself moment. Thanks to @ReadingsBooks for the event and @BlackIncBooks for their literary guardianship

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4 years

“The People’s Republic of Rugby League is the snoozing superpower of Australian sport.” New essay at @THEMONTHLY about Peter V’landys, rugba league, Murdoch vs Packer, and the shifting battle lines of Australian sport

The art of class war

How decades after Murdoch and Packer destroyed the popular appeal of a game created for the masses, Peter V’landys is putting rugby league back on top

www.themonthly.com.au

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Lech Blaine

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5 months

I had a chat to national treasure @PhillipAdams_1 about BAD COP: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics on @LNLonRN Or - as he called it - ‘Blaine Explains’

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3 years

Leftist second base is a handshake from Latho

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@RonniSalt Thanks Ronni - I really appreciate the kind words. That means a hell of a lot!

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“Dutton’s raison d’être? Make Australia afraid again. Then he will offer himself as the lesser of two evils. A serious strongman for the age of anxiety.” An extract from my Quarterly Essay BAD COP, out Monday

Make Australia afraid again: must we have our own Trump moment for Peter Dutton to become PM? |...

In a new Quarterly Essay, Lech Blaine profiles the leader of the opposition. In this extract he considers the former Queensland policeman’s chances of getting the top job

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

@BetootaAdvocate

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Bit emotional to be shortlisted for the QLD Premier's Award for a work of State Significance, and The University of QLD Non-Fiction Award. Thanks to the @QldLitAwards for their support, & @BlackIncBooks for nurturing CAR CRASH. And congrats to all the other shortlisted authors!!!

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2 years

You’ve all been warned

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3 years

Tomorrow night, I’m doing an interview with possibly the toppest bloke I know @mrbenjaminlaw thanks to @Gleebooks You can watch him interrogate me about Australian politics and masculinity for free! Via Zoom!

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My next book - Australian Gospel - will be published by @BlackIncBooks It’s about religious preachers Michael and Mary Shelley; my parents Tom and Lenore Blaine; and the foster kids trapped between their beliefs. Thanks to @literaryagent1 for sealing the deal

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5 months

“Peter Dutton was framed mostly in his preferred way – as a humble Queensland copper, not a wealthy property developer.” An extract from my Quarterly Essay BAD COP - out today - via @TheNewDailyAu

Bad cop: The strongman politics of Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton is a Howard battler gone gangbusters – a cop turned property developer with a distrust of intellectuals, plus a lust for money.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Lech Blaine

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2 years

Just did a school talk. A kid asked me to sign his banana. I’ve made it

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2 years

Following the success of @pocockdavid here’s hoping that Queenslander @clwelch94 is the next jacked athlete with a future in politics

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3 years

Father’s Day was yesterday. Tomorrow is the ten-year anniversary of my dad’s death. I dedicated my @quarterly_essay - TOP BLOKES - to him. It’s out next Monday. I’m sure that he’d absolutely piss himself with laughter to get top billing above Scott Morrison

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2 years

Honoured for Car Crash to be shortlisted for the National Biography Award

State Library of NSW

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“An account of bravado, survivor’s guilt & trauma in the passage to adulthood... from a young writer whose work exhibits depth, raw honesty & heartbreaking lyricism.” #NatBioAward #Shortlist @lechblaine @BlackIncBooks

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I’m still astonished an extract from my book CAR CRASH ( @BlackIncBooks ) is the cover story of @GoodWeekendMag My life became infinitely more enjoyable when I stopped pretending to be the tough guy that I thought my dad, brothers and mates expected me to be

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Thanks for all of the responses to the excerpt of my @quarterly_essay TOP BLOKES. I’m stoked to see it resonate so widely. If you’d struggle to fork out for the cost of a physical copy, shoot me a message with your postal address, and I’ll send you one

Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power | Quarterly Essay

What makes a top bloke? Does the myth of the larrikin still hold sway? And whatever happened to class in Australia? In this perceptive and often hilarious essay, Lech Blaine dissects some top blokes,

www.quarterlyessay.com.au

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2 years

Tomorrow, I have a long profile in @GoodWeekendMag about Robert Forster from The Go-Betweens. It's about the platonic love between two men, the romantic love between a man and a woman, and the salvation of creativity. Up now at @smh

For the Go-Betweens’ Robert Forster, the beat goes on despite ‘The Situation’

He lost his best friend and Go-Betweens co-founder in 2006. Now the love of his life has cancer. Their creative response has produced his riskiest album yet.

www.smh.com.au

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2 years

A former cabinet colleague of Scott Morrison: “Morrison does try to be something that he’s not. Scotty from Marketing, as his critics call him … All the beer and footy bullshit was part of his promotion, even internally with we colleagues. He gave me the creeps.”

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Lech Blaine

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5 years

obligatory "grieving son bringing everyone down a peg on mother's day" piece via @GuardianAus I love telling mum's story too much

My working class mum taught me the beauty of language. I wish I could name the strangeness of grief...

I keep failing to find the perfect words to sandbag the reality of mum’s missing existence

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Made my debut yesterday as a panellist on @ABCthedrum to chat with @ellenmfanning about my two favourite subjects of conversation: running a 3-star motel in Bundaberg, and the myth of the Australian larrikin

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Congratulations to Kalyn Ponga on the property purchase, and Kurt Mann on the loyal display of mateship

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I chatted to @SquigglyRick about survivor’s guilt and identity for @GuardianAus Rick quickly diagnosed my existential predicament. I think he must know a thing or two about this stuff??? CAR CRASH is out now via @BlackIncBooks

Lech Blaine on Car Crash and survivor’s guilt: ‘It’s just a book. I can’t bring them back to life’

In 2009, a teenaged Blaine survived a car crash that left three of his friends dead. His memoir is a reckoning with the tragedy and its aftermath

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Anti-covid restriction protest in Toowoomba, God’s own country

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2 years

Car Crash has been published in America, Canada and the UK. Looking forward to encountering the overseas negotiation of my father’s slang. I.e. “We’re not here to fuck spiders”

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Very special to do this piece with @NickFeik who took a punt on me a when I had no idea what I was doing. He’s been an awesome supporter and exponent of the essay form

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Pretty nice way to go out, I reckon. My last issue before commencing handover, and first - after 8+ yrs - under a non-Coalition government.

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4 years

PAPPED: @SquigglyRick in secret negotiations to become the Andrew Bolt of the @BetootaAdvocate #thereturnoftheprodigalson

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3 years

I had a chat to @BetootaAdvocate about how right-wing elites posture as anti-establishment while attacking genuine larrikins, ie @TamePunk The great thing about podcasts is you can call Andrew Bolt a suss c*** without bleeping

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2 years

(2) I chatted to a bunch of voters, and some of Labor’s new MP’s i.e. Zaneta Mascarenhas @SallySitou Michelle Ananda-Rajah and Dan Repacholi. Unfortunately, I could only include 10% of the people I interviewed. Still, I tried my best to create a kaleidoscope of the general mood

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1 year

Unbelievably grateful to receive the 2023 Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship. I get to spend a year at @CPC_usyd and @Sydney_Uni gleaning expertise about the brain and genetic editing. Huge shoes to fill! Read more here:

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I was horrified by the bitterness of the hangovers upon turning thirty. It turned out that I had coronavirus

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On Thursday night, I’m having a chat with the great @murpharoo about my @quarterly_essay TOP BLOKES. You can watch online for free thanks to @ReadingsBooks and also receive $5 off the cost of a copy

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Thank you to national treasure @PhillipAdams_1 for a riveting conversation about toffs cosplaying as battlers. And @RadioNational for using a photograph from before I aged thirty years while writing a book and a @quarterly_essay during coronavirus

The use and misuse of the larrikin identity - ABC listen

In his Quarterly Essay, writer Lech Blaine argues that the elite in Australia have tendency to imitate a working-class culture they generally don’t belong to. The political advantages of this “class...

www.abc.net.au

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Glory Glory to South Sydney!!! And even more glory to the DIY mullets that my sister Hannah used to receive from our older brothers

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4 years

I spent five months studying Hillsong sermons, and wrote an essay for @THEMONTHLY about the optimism of Brian Houston in the time of climate change and coronavirus

Hillsong’s strange tides

Brian Houston’s Pentecostal movement in an age of climate change and coronavirus

www.themonthly.com.au

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3 years

I reckon the more Morrison paints a federal ICAC as a witch hunt against politicians, the more appealing he makes it sound to the average voter

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I’m back on @abcconvos today for a candid chat with the great man @rfidler regarding my first book CAR CRASH: A MEMOIR, out now via @BlackIncBooks

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My highlight of @SydWritersFest - and one of the highlights of my life - would have to be getting on the Corona and limes with David Malouf on Friday night

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“I’ve been going to rugby league games since I could walk,” says @AlboMP “No one waves a scarf like that when your team is going to win.” The Rabbitohs are back in the NRL GF. Read Albo’s comments on the faux fandom of ScoMo at @THEMONTHLY

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Tomorrow, @goodweekendmag are publishing an exclusive extract from my debut CAR CRASH: A MEMOIR, out now via @BlackIncBooks It was an absolute honour to get my photo taken by @JamesBrickwood and chat to incredible editor @katrinastrick for podcast ‘Good Weekend Talks’, online now

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“Scott Morrison’s not dumb,” Kevin Rudd once told me. “He didn’t wave his hands in the air ... because he was led to do so by the Holy Spirit.” Indeed, the backlash he provokes with these appearances is part of The Plan - not God’s, but the PM’s office

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My first book CAR CRASH has received some early thumbs up. TIM WINTON: “Scarifying and unforgettable.” BRI LEE: “This book is for everyone.” BENJAMIN LAW: “Clear-eyed, bruising and tender.” TRENT DALTON: “A heart-soaring act of literary bravery.”

Car Crash by Lech Blaine @BlackIncBooks

What is it like to survive a crash that kills your best friends, and how do you move on? From an exceptional debut writer comes a stunning memoir about grief, perseverance and courage.

www.blackincbooks.com.au

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How good is Queensland???

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Steve Bradbury’d my way past Sal Rooney and Jonno Franzen in the top 10 at @BRTDbookshop last week. Stoked that people are still buying, reading, and agreeing / disagreeing with TOP BLOKES

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“Scott Morrison rocketed to the top of a mock meritocracy populated by mediocre GPS boys, who scratched each other’s backs until there wasn’t any skin or fingernails left.” @THEMONTHLY have published an extract from my @quarterly_essay TOP BLOKES

Birth of a larrikin

The disguised rise of Scott Morrison

www.themonthly.com.au

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2 years

General consensus seems to be that I did, in fact, shit myself. I am now the Nate Myles of Australian literature

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My hotel in Canberra inexplicably left three unwrapped chocolates at the end of the bed, with the heater blasting. Yesterday, I woke up from a nap and thought that I’d shat myself

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Tomorrow night, I’ll be in Canberra doing an ANU Meet the Author event with @markgkenny chatting about my Quarterly Essay BAD COP

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Happy Love Your Bookshop Day!!! One of my most cherished memories is launching a book on the Brown Snake surrounded by loved ones thanks to @avidreader4101 Kristina Olsson and @TrentDalton who are all inexhaustible sources of love for readers and writers in Queensland

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I forgot how much the routine of watching rugby league contributed to my emotional equilibrium

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Had a yarn to @ProgRugbyLeague in the lead-up to the NRL grand final about my @quarterly_essay TOP BLOKES, and the connection between politics and the great game of rugby league. FYI: I was an Allan Langer-esque halfback, trapped in the body of George Rose

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My high school English teacher Mr Shaw. Public confession: I’m still not 100% sure what an adverb is

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My first book CAR CRASH is published by @BlackIncBooks on March 30. I’m doing events with @bri_lee_writer in Sydney, @AnnaKrien in Melbourne, @TrentDalton in Brisbane, and Archie Hamilton from The Betoota in my hometown of Toowoomba. See for free tickets!

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I’m launching BAD COP next Monday night in Melbourne with Chloe Hooper, via @ReadingsBooks

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“They are all fucking crook down there I tell you.” - Bill Hayden on New South Wales

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Late-arvo blizzard at @VarunaWriters yesterday. A change from the charcoal snowflakes falling during cane season in Bundaberg

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Absolutely shattered to hear about the car accident in Buxton. Five families are confronting the overnight absence of their children and siblings. A grieving community will need concrete resources to deal with the lingering psychological impact

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CAR CRASH: A MEMOIR has been out and about for three months via @BlackIncBooks Thank-you to all the people who have shaped, consumed and/or circulated my words within Australia!!! In 2022, CAR CRASH will be published in Canada, America and the U.K. by @greystonebooks

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I had a chat to @rfidler on @abcconvos about my Quarterly Essay BAD COP: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics

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“By the 2022 election, voters might get one too many glimpses of the smirk and shirk underneath Morrison’s masquerade of mateship.” Top time to read my @quarterly_essay I’m working on a sequel for @THEMONTHLY

Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power | Quarterly Essay

What makes a top bloke? Does the myth of the larrikin still hold sway? And whatever happened to class in Australia? In this perceptive and often hilarious essay, Lech Blaine dissects some top blokes,

www.quarterlyessay.com.au

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Quiet Australians - like my prison guard cousin Mick - are posting the most excoriating Instagram memes about ScoMo. He might be in trouble

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Great to be back in @GoodWeekendMag with a short but hopefully sweet piece about the religious experience of eating my first kebab, defecting to Sydney in my late-twenties, and turning thirty

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Good to kick off proceedings for my sister’s wedding with a two-hour debate between my brother’s about whether climate change is real or not. Hoping to carry that ideological energy through to the ceremony, which has been relocated to the Sawtell RSL due to biblical flooding

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Publication day for CAR CRASH: A MEMOIR via @BlackIncBooks I even managed to make a faux pas during the obligatory box opening video, which accurately reflects my attempts to finish writing it. I’d love for you to buy CAR CRASH from your local bookstore

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This is a terrifically insightful book about rekindling the spirit of collectivism - AKA the fair go - following an era of individualism @ak_pennington asks important questions, and provides fresh ideas

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My forthcoming Quarterly Essay is called TOP BLOKES. It is a tale about larrikins and battlers, and what happens when white-collar squatters cosplay as jolly swagmen. You can pre-order it now via @quarterly_essay and @BlackIncBooks

Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power | Quarterly Essay

What makes a top bloke? Does the myth of the larrikin still hold sway? And whatever happened to class in Australia? In this perceptive and often hilarious essay, Lech Blaine dissects some top blokes,

www.quarterlyessay.com.au

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“He told punters in the Deep North that Australia needed to be more like them, not the other way around, eliciting pride instead of inferiority.” I went on a 7000 km road trip for @THEMONTHLY to trace the roots of Scott Morrison’s mute revolution

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Tu Le is a modern-day reincarnation of Tommy Raudonikis. She seems like the dream grassroots ALP candidate to tap into the frustration that battlers in western Sydney feel about being treated like second-rate citizens

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During the election, I interviewed a CFMEU member in Biloela named Darren, who is presumably the new drinking advisor to Anthony Albanese

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Publishing a book is great, but becoming mates with geniuses of words and warmth like @m_riwoe and @lauraelvery is just as great

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ICYMI: yesterday, @GoodWeekendMag published an excerpt from my first book CAR CRASH: A MEMOIR, out Tuesday via @BlackIncBooks And FYI: I was getting heckled by hi-vis, half-cut tradies while getting moody portraits taken on the steps of The Nelson Hotel

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I’m extremely lucky to have had the unwavering faith of @BlackIncBooks during a long writing process, and to receive endorsements for the proof from literary legends @bri_lee_writer @mrbenjaminlaw and Kristina Olsson

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Lech Blaine

@lechblaine

3 years

Lucky conservative country women are my bread-and-butter customers

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Lech Blaine

@lechblaine

3 years

The North American edit for Car Crash was mostly uneventful, up until the chapter about my dad and rugby league. Not sure that I can bring myself to call pluggers “flip flops”. But I do love the image of me in the backyard kicking a cricket ball

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Lech Blaine

@lechblaine

2 years

@JohnBirmingham John - I’m fkn chuffed that you liked it! And thanks for producing so much wonderful reportage for me to love and learn from

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Lech Blaine

@lechblaine

3 years

This is a timely and illuminating essay about the alternative PM by @NickBryantNY “… maybe it’s time for a mechanic rather than a Messiah.”

The repair man

Anthony Albanese and the task at hand

www.themonthly.com.au

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Lech Blaine

@lechblaine

3 years

Absolutely here for Wayne Bennett entering the larrikin discourse

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Lech Blaine

@lechblaine

2 years

“I’m no Liberal-voting coalminer. But getting covered in other people’s shit seems pretty working class to me, bro.” Dylan Rowe, a tradie turned disability support worker. Read his quotes in latest @THEMONTHLY

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