We Sharpen Our Axes Against the Hardest Stone

Authors

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  Bebe Oliver

  Bebe Oliver is a Bardi Jawi award-winning author, poet and illustrator. As a leading advocate for Aboriginal advancement and self-determination, he is deeply committed to the empowerment and visibility of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creators.
  
  Bebe is the Artistic Director and CEO of Blak & Bright First Nations Literary Festival, and the Deputy Chair of Magabala Books, demonstrating his drive for literary excellence and cultural representation.
  
  Bebe’s newest book, if this is the end, is regarded as a fearless and honest exploration of identity, and “a queer Blak classic”.
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  Brook Garru Andrew

  Considered one of Australia’s most important artists and a leading international voice in advocating for Indigenous ways of knowing through contemporary creative practice, Dr Brook Garru Andrew’s practice is grounded in his perspective as a Wiradjuri and Ngunnawal person. Brook is Enterprise Professor in Interdisciplinary Practice and Director, Reimagining Museums and Collections at the University of Melbourne and Curator (First Peoples) at Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
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  Daniel Browning

  Daniel Browning is an award-winning Bundjalung and Kullilli writer, journalist and radio broadcaster. Currently the ABC’s Editor of Indigenous Radio, he also presents The Art Show and Arts in 30 podcasts. Hailed as “an outstanding contribution to arts journalism”, his first book, Close to the Subject: Selected Works won the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and the Indigenous Writing Prize at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. In 2024 he was First Nations Writer-in-Residence and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, based at Trinity Hall College.
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  Nayuka Gorrie

  Nayuka Gorrie is a Gunnai/Kurnai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta essayist and screenwriter.

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