Geordie Williamson

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728 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2018 last heard 21 Aug

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The Bookshelf · Anjet Daanje's extraordinary The Stork and the Dromedary + Liane Moriarty returns with Big Little Truths · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

And my assumption that I, the human, was in charge, was the boss, was the top of the hierarchy, was undone in a second.

And the implications of that knowledge I need to share with you now.

So, in much the same way that Les Murray was uh attempting this kind of empathetic uh exit from the human and entering into the national.

Natural world.

Val Plumwood had that rudely kind of imposed upon her by this crocodile attack.

But I think that there's something very similar in the way they responded.

You know, when I try and think about like what is different about Australia and different about our responses to place, I think it would be very hard for any English philosopher, no matter how brilliant.

To ever be in a situation where they were so kind of mauled by a rogue ferret that, you know, they were forced into a kind of humbled kind of sense of their self in the natural order.

That

Here was a moment where uh an Australian out in the middle of nowhere had an experience and could.

Absorb that and turn it into something, a profound thought experiment that would be impossible in the old world.

So yeah, um, Val Plumwood's The Eye of the Crocodile strikes me as about the most Australian text that you're likely to be able to read.

It's a cracking adventure on a story of survival, um, completely beyond the odds, but

and also a profound philosophical meditation on our place in the world.

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The Bookshelf · Elizabeth Strout returns, Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear and more new fiction · 8 May 2026 podcast

Could actually.

That was me escaping from Central Western New South Wales to become a publisher.

So I sort of would have to run it in reverse, I think.

Oh, look, I'm so ashamed.

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