​               ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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​Clinton Walker is the real thing: A Monaro Man! Buried Country leaves a clear mark of recognition and celebration
           Peter Beliharz, Thesis Eleven Centre/Imagining the Antipodes

Clinton Walker is our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture
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With Lionel Rose, shooting the film, Bon Beach, 1999

With Mary Mihelakos and Warren H. Williams, Tamworth, 2016

With Bob Randall and Auriel Andrew at the film premiere, Sydney, 2000

For a full CV/narrative biography go to clintonwalker.com.au/about, meantime it’s enough to say: Born in Bendigo in regional Victoria in 1957, I am a Sydney-based writer, an art school drop-out and recovering rock critic who, since the late 70s, has built up a long list across (nine) books, television, journalism, CD productions, all sorts of stuff, mainly on local music, popular culture and social history. I am a(n intellectual) risk-taker, careerist-averse and I retain an almost terminal antipathy to corporatism and capital-‘p’ politics, and to the chattering classes who set Australia’s cultural agenda. I consider myself an historian who finds resonances where most don’t even bother to look, in our own backyard, yesterday. I mean, who else you gonna call?
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ABOVE: With L.J. Hill and Roger Knox, Tamworth, 2016. LEFT: With the one-night-only Buried Country All-Stars at the 2015 Sydney (re-)launch of the book, L to R - Toby Martin, Vic Simms, Darren Hanlon and Jason Walker (back), Leah Flanagan and Luke Peacock.