It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: February 7, 1943 |
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

