I'm writing a book

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This has all happened very quickly, but I wanted everyone here to be the first to know that on Friday last week, I signed a contract to write a new book for NewSouth Books, the publisher of my two previous books.

I’m really excited about this, though a little daunted, as we are working to a very tight deadline.

NewSouth want to have it available for Christmas this year, which means I have to deliver the finished manuscript in the next few months. Of course, there will be an editing process, but obviously that means the thing to edit must be done by then.

Gulp.

The book will be about what happened at the last election, the rise of the Voices Of candidates, the role women have played in all this, the collapse of the Liberal Party, the loss of authority of the mainstream media, and the ways in which we might ensure that the positive change of 21 May is bedded down and, hopefully, improved upon.

The working title for the book is, Voices Of Us: What the 2022 Election Changed and What Will Happ…