I think this kind of funny. Australia has denied entrance to Snoop Dogg.

Quoted: "He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this country."

This is the reference page an Australian Bookstore made for Elliot Perlman. It includes links to all of his current works as well as a bit more information about him. This was a great quote about wht he was trying to do with "Seven Types of Ambiguity," the novel I just read:

Quoted: "…I don't shrink from the fact that this is an attempt, anyway, to be a serious examination of contemporary Australian society, and I'm not saying that Australia needs me to do it. I think Australia needs 'people' to do it, generally. And I'll stick my neck out and say I don't think it's done often enough. And that's not to criticise any particular writers or any particular book, because there's some outstanding writers of Australian literary fiction, so there's no sub-text in here. I'm not pointing the finger at anybody. I'm just saying that if we, as a society, aggregated, don't produce anybody that's writing about all the terrible things that have been happening to our society in the last ten or twenty years; you've got to ask questions about the maturity of our culture."

I watched this a couple nights ago on the weekend and thought it was a great movie. One of the things that sold me on it was seeing that Peter Gabriel had done the soundtrack. I was happy to discover that the sound track is pretty minimalistic and serves the movie, rather than the other way around.

The basic plot is about three "half-bred" Aboriginal girls who are taken from their mothers to learn to be proper slaves for the English colonizers attempting to "breed the Aborigine out of the Aborigine." These three girls make an escape from their educational camp and make their way home over 1,200 miles of rugged outback terrain following the multi-part rabbit-proof fence.

It's a movie worth seeing for sure.
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