Category: Issues/Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
Category: Issues/Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The rise, fall and rise of sport gambling in Australia Australians lose more money gambling than any other country. But how did we get here? In his inimitable, hilarious style, sports historian Titus O’Reily charts the rise, fall and rise of sport gambling in Australia. We’ll gamble on anyth ...Show more
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`The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism? With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-libe ...Show more
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Cardinal George Pell, Australia's most powerful Catholic, has been found guilty of five sexual crimes against children. Updated edition. He is the most senior Catholic figure in the world to be charged by police and convicted of child sex offences. The abuse involved choirboys at Melbourne's St Patrick' ...Show more
Category: Issues/Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Griffith Review'sseventh annual edition dedicated to the novella eschews a set theme to showcase work across a spectrum of subjects. Open to both fiction and creative non-fiction, Griffith Review'sdedication to the novella form has been hailed by Nick Earls as central to the revival of the form in Austr ...Show more
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‘For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.’ Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power. The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of indec ...Show more
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China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia? In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts and minds, mi ...Show more
Category: Issues/Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Women must quit their jobs when they marry. They are barred from trade unions and universities. Their husbands can legally rape them. And they are not allowed to vote. This could be the reality in Australia today — if it weren’t for the many women who, over more than a century of activism, f ...Show more
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In the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre on 28 April 1996 - when a gunman murdered 35 people and injured another 23 at a popular Tasmanian tourist attraction - John Howard, a conservative prime minister who had been in office for just six weeks, surprised his colleagues and startled the nation by mo ...Show more
Category: Issues/Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The dramatic story of the extraordinary trial of the third most senior Catholic cleric in the world for child sex abuse, and the conviction that sent ripples around the world.
Category: Issues/Current Affairs
No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I hea ...Show more
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The shocking truth about Australia's financial institutions, as told by the journalist who did most to bring about Australia's banking royal commission. Against all the odds Australia ended up with a banking royal commission. Since hearings began in 2018, revelations about banking and insurance company ...Show more
