Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7 | 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
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent by John Simpson
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Category: Current Affairs
In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is d ...Show more
The Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound by Siobhán McHugh
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Category: Current Affairs
Podcasting is hailed for its intimacy and authenticity in an age of mistrust and disinformation. This portable audio format is hugely popular, with journalists, entertainers, corporates, celebrities, artists, activists and hobbyists all dipping a toe in the podcast pond.But while it is relatively easy t ...Show more
The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: GARNER. HELEN
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its auth ...Show more
Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
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Category: Current Affairs
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
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Category: Current Affairs
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death. The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world ...Show more
Waleed Aly (I Know This to Be True): On Sincerity, Compassion and Integrity by Waleed Aly; Geoff Blackwell
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: I Know This to be True | Reading Level: new
One of Australia's leading commentators on national and international issues, Waleed Aly answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to him. Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project, a daily primetime television news ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
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Category: Current Affairs
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
The Putin Interviews : Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin by Robert (FRW) Oliver (CON); Scheer Stone
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Showtime Documentary Films
Academy Award winner Oliver Stone was able to secure what journalists, news organizations, and even other world leaders have long coveted: extended, unprecedented access to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Putin Interviews are culled from more than a dozen interviews with Putin over a two-year span ...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 ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero; Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
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Category: Current Affairs
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of 2018, expanded into the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era. 'How to find the right words to frame this horror? How to understand why men do what they do to women? How to comprehend this malign force that seems to seep from the male psyche and ...Show more