Arnhem Land: where the first (or even second or third) language is not English and you need to ask permission before travelling across country; where you have to demonstrate respect and observation of the laws of the land and its peoples but none of it is written down. After a lifetime of growing up in Australia, it feels eerily like foreign travel - but without ever leaving the country.
Andrew McMillan talks about his book An Intruder’s Guide To East Arnhem Land - part history, part journalism, part literature, part love story with a people and a place.
ANDREW MCMILLAN (INTERSTATE) ANDREW McMILLAN is the author of non-fiction books Strict Rules, Death In Dili, Catalina Dreaming, Tiwi Footy and the 2009 Northern Territory Book of the Year An Intruder’s Guide To East Arnhem Land. The former rock journo has also won awards for poetry, short stories and essays, and has had a play produced by Darwin Theatre Company. Andrew also writes lyrics for Stockholm-based Aussie singer Janie Kitto. To keep the dingo from the door, he occasionally writes for newspapers and magazines. Since 1991 he’s been acting chief of staff for the celebrated "rock journalism" typewriter act, Darwin’s 4th Estate.
CLAIRE SCOBIE (LOCAL) CLAIRE SCOBIE is an English-born journalist and author of Last Seen in Lhasa, winner of the Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2007. She writes for The Daily Telegraph and The Observer, UK and is a contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Life, Marie Claire and The Australian Way, the Qantas inflight magazine. Claire lives in Sydney, teaches writing workshops and is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. In 2009 she began a research scholarship with the Writing and Society Group at the University of Western Sydney.
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