Awards: Writers' Walk, Sydney Circular Quay

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170028] HONORIS CAUSA AND RECOGNITIONAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017002800006Scope and ContentContains: Correspondence on Greer plaque in Writers' Walk, Circular Quay, Sydney. Greer accepted the 1992 invitation to have a plaque in the third stage of Writers' Walk, which was launched 22/7/1992. She supplied the quotation to use from Journal of the Plague Year, 1988: "Australia is my birthplace but I cannot call it my own as well as my native land, for I have no right to live there. Until a treaty is agreed with the original inhabitants, I shall be homeless in the world.", and a brief biography. Includes 1996 request from Jane Selby to use this quotation in a talk, approved by Greer; colour photograph of plaque and photocopy of this image. Correspondents: Germaine Greer; Carol Horne (for Germaine Greer); Gabrielle Coyne, Penguin Books Australia; Sharon Carleton, Co-ordinator, Writers' Walk; Evan Williams, Secretary, Ministry for the Arts New South Wales; Jane Selby; Delena McConnell, Gillon Aitken Associates. Subjects: AwardsAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0028 Unit 0001

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date30 March 1992-17 November 2006

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Awards: Writers' Walk, Sydney Circular Quay