Review

Richard Flanagan's new treatise on the salmon industry is worthy but

By Frank O'Shea
June 12 2021 - 12:00am
  • Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry, by Richard Flanagan. Penguin, $24.99.

There is great merit in someone with an international name using their status to try to right a perceived wrong. The trouble is that such a person may not be good at that kind of thing and this applies in some ways to Richard Flanagan's attempt to highlight the damage being done by the salmon industry in Tasmania. In the end, a reader may feel that she has been hit over the head with a rant delivered by a furious headmaster or a bible-thumping evangelist.

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