Has the Luck Run Out? The End of Old Australia by David Fagan

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Category: Current Affairs

Blood on the Rosary by Sue Smethurst; Margaret Harrod

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Category: Current Affairs

A heartfelt, brave and inspiring memoir about the power of speaking out A brave nun. Her twin brother. The secrets and lies that would tear them apart. There is a special bond that twins share, an ethereal connection that can't be put into words. Margaret Harrod shared that unique bond with her twin b rother Michael. As children they were inseparable and at age 22, together they gave their lives to the Catholic Church. Margaret became a nun and Michael a Salesian priest - it was the proudest day of their deeply religious parents' lives. Margaret cherishes those carefree childhood memories because the brother she adored is now in jail. Father Michael Aulsebrook pleaded guilty to multiple charges of molesting children, some as young as seven. And the unlikely whistleblower was his courageous twin sister. It cost Margaret everything, but she couldn't stay silent any longer about the damage her brother was wreaking in his community. Margaret knows of that damage firsthand, having had that trust betrayed herself. Blood on the Rosary is Margaret's story - how she sacrificed everything she held dear in the pursuit of the truth, and how she bravely fought her church and her community to bring paedophile priests to justice. 'Margaret Harrod's compelling life experience is a truth we all need to understand' Chrissie Foster, author of Hell on the Way to Heaven ...Show more

Quitting Plastic: Easy and Practical Ways to Cut Down the Plastic in Your Life by Clara Williams Roldan; Louise Williams (As told to)

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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 non fiction

How to reduce plastic in your everyday life, starting with changes that are small and easy to make, and working up to bigger changes to your daily routine.

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai

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Category: Current Affairs

Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences travelling the world and visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement - first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world, except to the home she loved. In We Are Displaced, which is part memoir, part communal storytelling, Malala not only explores her own story of adjusting to a new life while longing for home, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her various journeys -girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they've ever known. In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the world's most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person - often a young person - with hopes and dreams, and that everyone deserves universal human rights and a safe home. ...Show more

Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro

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Category: Current Affairs

Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story. It explores how the world we lived in-with the pill and a regular pay cheque-transformed us and how, almost in spite of ourselves, we revolutionised the world. It is a celebration of grit, adaptability, energy and persistence. It is also a plea for future generations to keep agitating for a better, fairer world. ...Show more

Defending Australia: Australian Foreign Affairs Issue 4 by Jonathan Pearlman

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Category: Current Affairs

The fourth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the challenge of defending Australia at a time of regional uncertainty and fast-changing military technology. It explores the nation's main vulnerabilities and the capabilities needed to secure against them, including the consequences of a nuclear arms race in Asia. Michael Wesley examines where Australia's next war will occur, and how we can defend ourselves. John Birmingham analyses Australia's weapons capabilities and how they compare to those of our Asian allies. Patrick Walters probes into Australia's expanding intelligence agencies. Stephan Fr3hling considers if Australia should go nuclear, in the event of a looming Asian arms race. PLUS Tess Newton Cain, Visiting Fellow at the Development Policy Centre in the Australian National University, on Matthew G. Allen's Resource Extraction and Contentious States and mining in the Pacific region. Matthew Thompson, fellow at the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, on Jonathan Miller's Duterte Harry and the deeply problematic Duterte regime. ALSO Correspondence on AFA3- Australia and Indonesia, including responses from the feature essayists. ...Show more

Rusted Off: Why Country Australia Is Fed Up by Gabrielle Chan

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Category: Current Affairs

Telling the story of Australia as it is today, Gabrielle Chan has gone hyper-local. In Rusted Off,she looks to her own rural community?s main street for answers to the big questions driving voters. Why are we so fed up with politics? Why are formerly rusted-on country voters deserting major parties in g reater numbers than their city cousins? Can ordinary people teach us more about the way forward for government?In 1996 - the same year as Pauline Hanson entered parliament - Gabrielle, the city-born daughter of a Chinese migrant, moved to a sheep and wheat farm in country New South Wales. She provides a window into her community where she raised her children and reflects on its lessons for the Australian political story. It is a fresh take on the old rural narrative, informed by class and culture, belonging and broadband, committees and cake stalls, rural recession and reconciliation.Along the way, Gabrielle recounts conversations with her fellow residents, people who have no lobby group in Canberra, so we can better understand lives rarely seen in political reporting. She describes communities that are forsaking the political process to move ahead of government. Though sometimes facing polar opposite political views to her own, Gabrielle learns the power of having a shared community at stake and in doing so, finds an alternative for modern political tribal warriors. ...Show more

The Book of the Year 2018 by No Such Thing as a Fish Staff; Anon

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Category: Current Affairs

Following hot on the heels of the success of The Book of the Year (or, more precisely, twelve months later) The Book of the Year 2018 will be making its way into the nation's bookshops this autumn. Compiled and written by the creators of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, all of whom are researchers for QI, The Book of the Year 2018 will bravely delve behind the headlines to sniff out the best and most bizarre facts of the last twelve months. Among many other things, it will establish that: - Britain's first robot shop assistant was sacked after a week.- Donald Trump claimed the US sells F52 planes to Norway, even though F52 planes only exist in the game Call of Duty.- During the Winter Olympics, it was so windy during the Women's Slopestyle Final that every single competitor was blown off her snowboard. - A snail racing competition in Plymouth was postponed because the snails were too 'sluggish' to take part. Ranging from the distinctly offbeat to the wonderfully ludicrous - from the South Africans who were rationed to just one toilet flush per day, to the Nutella riots spreading across France, via the Miami bitcoin conference that stopped accepting bitcoin - The Book of the Year promises a fact for every occasion and will prove the perfect Christmas gift for all trivia buffs. ...Show more

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley

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Category: Current Affairs

From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a nd societies around the world. But is progress inevitable? Its critics argue that human civilization has become different, not better, over the last two and a half centuries. What is seen as a breakthrough or innovation in one period becomes a setback or limitation in another. In short, progress is an ideology not a fact; a way of thinking about the world as opposed to a description of reality. So is the cup half full or half empty? As part of the Munk Debates series, held in Toronto biannually, pioneering cognitive scientist Steven Pinker and bestselling author Matt Ridley squared off against noted philosopher Alain de Botton and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, giving us an entertaining and thought-provoking face-off between four of the world's most renowned thinkers. ...Show more

Griffith Review 63 - Writing the Country by Ashley Hay; Julianne Schultz

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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.

How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko wrote of 'earthspeaking, talking about this place, my home?. All these years later, the need to hear all sorts of earthspeak has perhaps never been more urgent. Co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Ashley Hay, Griffith Review 63- Writing the Countryfeatures contributions from writers including Tony Birch, Kim Mahood, Jane Gleeson-White and Charles Massy. This edition ofGriffith Reviewis supported by The Nature Conservancy. ...Show more

Political Correctness Gone Mad? by Stephen Fry; Jordan B. Peterson; Michael Eric Dyson; Michelle Goldberg

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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 non fiction

"Without free speech there is no true thought." Jordan Peterson Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate and the free exchange of ideas? Or is it a progressive force, eroding the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalised groups from society?

The Women's Atlas by Joni Seager

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Category: Current Affairs

is is not just an atlas about women. It's a feminist remapping of the world.' - Joni Seager Joni Seager's award-winning The Women's Atlas illustrates the status of women worldwide today. Through cutting-edge infographics, the atlas portrays how women are living across continents and cultures: * Gender E quality * LGBTQIA+ Rights * Literacy and Information Technology * Feminism * Domestic Violence * Work and the Global Economy * Changing Households * Motherhood * Government and Power * The Culture of Beauty, and much more. The result is the most comprehensive and accessible global analysis of key issues facing women: the advances that have been made and the distances still to be travelled. 'The Women's Atlas puts inequality into clear, confronting perspective and inspires us to do more for all women.' - Rosie Batty, Domestic Violence Campaigner and 2015 Australian of the Year ...Show more