David Hunt

I've done my best to straighten my life out. That's all I can do.

I have stage four cancer, pancreatic cancer, and it probably won't last that long.

I have stage four cancer, pancreatic cancer, and it probably won't last that long.

I have stage four cancer, pancreatic cancer, and it probably won't last that long.

I'm Cassie McCullough.

Also today, the winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award for 2020, Tara June Winch's The Yield.

Well, the Miles Franklin Judging Committee sure heard it and they gave it the big gong this year.

But there's also a challenge in this book for readers, Kate, and Tara June Winch underlined that when she accepted the award just a few weeks ago.

Here she is.

Mm-hmm.

And Maureen Fuller said, I read this when it was first published and as a white person navigated the complexity of Indigenous life written from the perspective of a Wiradjuri writer.

I loved this book.

Hi, Kate.

Yeah.

Hi, Maggie.

Good to have you along.

I think, Maggie, when Kate and I first read this and spoke about it on our program, The Bookshelf, we had a really similar response to that.

It was, look at this book.

It's just sort of come like a comet out of the sky.

And it's...