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University of Queensland Press (UQP) Publisher Madonna Duffy thought so. Last week she knocked back a proposal for a memoir about the life of the former Queensland premier, Campbell Newman, to be written by former MP Gavin King.
One of Newman’s first actions as Premier back in 2012 was to withdraw funding for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. The cuts affected all of the awards, including the David Unaipon Award for Best Indigenous Manuscript, a prize that had been created by UQP.
