173 George Wilkie, As an architect and author I am concerned that the Individual Australian Government believes it has the charter to give away individual citizens rights. Copyright is not a privilege given by governments to give or take to use their narrow agenda. It is a long established right that protects the powerful from stealing the intellectual and creative product of individuals. No foreign power, government or commercial organisation should gain free access to copyright material generated and protected in Australia. 174 Annabelle Brayley, I live in outback Australia and write stories about ordinary Individual Australians who do extraordinary things - mostly in the outback, sometimes elsewhere like those in my latest book OUR VIETNAM NURSES. This is significant social history and they are important stories that need to be shared. Who else is going to do that if publishers like Penguin Books Australia, who took a gamble on me four years ago when together we published Bush Nurses, are no longer able to offer that opportunity to a new, unknown storyteller? 175 Louisa Deasey, I don't believe these recommendations work in favour of Individual the public or the author and will not result in an Australia well-versed in its own country's authors.
173 George Wilkie, Individual As an architect and author I am concerned that the Australian Government believes it has the charter to give away individual citizens rights. Copyright is not a privilege given by governments to give or take to use their narrow agenda. It is a long established right that protects the powerful from stealing the intellectual and creative product of individuals. No foreign power, government or commercial organisation should gain free access to copyright material generated and protected in Australia. 174 Annabelle Brayley, Individual I live in outback Australia and write stories about ordinary Australians who do extraordinary things - mostly in the outback, sometimes elsewhere like those in my latest book OUR VIETNAM NURSES. This is significant social history and they are important stories that need to be shared. Who else is going to do that if publishers like Penguin Books Australia, who took a gamble on me four years ago when together we published Bush Nurses, are no longer able to offer that opportunity to a new, unknown storyteller? 175 Louisa Deasey, Individual I don't believe these recommendations work in favour of the public or the author and will not result in an Australia well-versed in its own country's authors.
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