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Murriyang

Song of Time

by Stan Grant
Stan Grant
Audiobook
Pre-release: Expected July 2, 2025
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Shortlisted for the 2025 ABIA Awards, Social Impact Book of the Year
Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, he offers a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing a path to peace and forgiveness, rooted in the Wiradjuri spiritual practice of Yindyamarra – deep silence and respect.
Murriyang, in part Grant's response to the Voice referendum, eschews politics for love. In this gorgeous, grace-filled book, he zooms out to reflect on the biggest questions, ranging across the history, literature, theology, music and art that has shaped him. Setting aside anger for kindness, he reaches past the secular to the sacred and transcendent.
Informed by spiritual thinkers from around the world, Murriyang is a Wiradjuri prayer in one long uninterrupted breath, challenging Western notions of linear time in favour of a time beyond time – the Dreaming.
Murriyang is also very personal, each meditation interleaved with a memory of Grant's father, a Wiradjuri cultural leader. It asks how any of us can say goodbye to those we love.
This is a book for our current moment, and something for the ages.

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      October 15, 2024
      In May 2023, journalist Stan Grant (Talking to My Country) stepped away from his role as host of ABC’s Q+A. His latest book, Murriyang: Song of Time, is a heartfelt and vulnerable response to the events that led to his resignation and that have unfolded since, ‘in a year when Australia struggled with its soul, [and] I felt my own slipping away’. Murriyang has a personal and emotional tone that makes it a poignant departure from the decades of political commentary that have made Grant a household name. The memoir explores themes of identity, colonisation and belonging through the unique lens of Grant’s intersecting Wiradjuri descent and Christian faith. With self-awareness, Grant reflects on how these aspects of his identity, though seemingly at odds with one another, have been a source of comfort through trials, including his father’s illness. Grant poetically chronicles his relationship with his stoic father, Stan Grant Sr, a Wiradjuri cultural leader, transforming his grief into gratitude. Each chapter jumps between stories of ‘Babiin’ (father) and ‘Murriyang’ (skyworld) to weave together an intimate image of Stan Grant. Murriyang is one of the first books to address the wounds of post–Voice referendum Australia, making it a meaningful read for those reflecting on recent events. Grant implores readers to leave chaos behind, pause, contemplate and seek peace.

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