The book, which opens with him grappling with the monarchy and its legacy, is revealing in terms of his decision to step back from public life. In this new book, Grant yearns for a way to comprehend the forces, ideas and history that led to this cultural moment we inhabit. Review: The Queen is Dead – Stan Grant (HarperCollins) His second book, Talking to my Country, won the Walkley Book Award in 2016. The former role reflects his global work, reporting from conflict zones with esteemed international broadcasters such as CNN. Grant has worked as a journalist in Australia for more than three decades: first on commercial current affairs – and until this week, as a main anchor at the ABC, where he was an international affairs analyst and the host of the panel discussion show Q+A. They have tried to depict me as hate filled”. “I repeatedly said that these truths are spoken with love for the Australia we have never been.” And yet, “I have seen people in the media lie and distort my words. I pointed out that the crown represents the invasion and theft of our land,” he wrote last Friday. “I was invited to contribute to the ABC’s coverage as part of a discussion about the legacy of the monarchy.
And last week, he abruptly stepped away from his career in the public realm, citing toxic racism enabled by social media, and betrayal on the part of his employer, the ABC. This month, journalist and public intellectual Stan Grant published his fifth book, The Queen is Dead.
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