Events
- Morag Fraser is appointed as a judge of the Miles Franklin Award, following the resignation of 3 judges in late 2004
- Murray Bail is accused of plagiarism over several passages in his novel Eucalyptus. Bail later accepts the breach and intends adding an acknowledgment in future editions
- the Victorian town of Shepparton unveils a statue of Joseph Furphy, author of Such is Life
- Collins Booksellers, Australia's third largest national bookseller, goes into voluntary administration
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“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
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“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”
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