Stephen Orr on Transitions

Hello all! Hope you're keeping warm. We have a lot going on over here at Wakefield Press, not least of all the release of Stephen Orr's latest book, The Hands, later this month. To keep you going until then, we've got Stephen's wonderful keynote speech on transitions for the Gawler Festival of Words, reprinted with permission here: So let’s look at some famous transitions. Australian culture. In the 1950s, absent, or derivative, aping American and British models?…