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He writes pretty decent cookbooks, but Jamie Oliver’s sidestep into writing children’s novels hasn’t gone so well. The celebrity chef has had to halt sales of his latest book ‘Billy and the Epic Escape’ around the world over its portrayal of first nations Australians. One chapter features an Aboriginal girl with mystical powers living in foster care, who's abducted from her home in central Australia. Today, Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic, Jeanine Leane, on what Jamie Oliver got so wrong. Featured: Jeanine Leane, writer and poet and Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne |