Dreaming Too Loud

An incisive and witty collection of Geoffrey Robertson's best writings and speeches. The satirical magazine Private Eye has described Geoffrey Robertson as 'an Australian who's had a voice transplant'. Robertson explains: 'In my first appearance at the Old Bailey I had to tell a prim and proper judge that I appeared on behalf of a company which manufactured T-shirts emblazoned with the 'F' word. I nervously mustered up the courage to tell him that the offending logo read 'F*** Art, let's Dance.' His eyebrows shot up in horror. 'F*** Art let's WHAT, Mr Robertson?' 'Let's dance, my Lord.' 'Oh I see. You're an Australian. What you mean to say is 'F*** Art, lets Darnce'. In these witty, wonderfully incisive essays, Geoffrey Robertson muses on a wide range of subjects: his illustrious career at the bar and as a champion of free speech and human rights around the world; the humanity and enlightenment of our first governor, Arthur Phillip; little-known Tom Curnow, whose courage Robertson compares to what he sees as the cruelty of Ned Kelly; the endemic problems facing Indigenous Australia; our war record; his relationship with Julian Assange, and much else. With his unmistakeably biting intelligence and humanity Robertson cuts through to what is brilliant and terrible about Australia in the twenty-first century.