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A world waiting to be born: civility rediscovered
By M. Scott Peck. 1993
We live in a deeply ailing society and our illness is incivility; morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness and…
materialism. Dr. Peck argues that we can learn to restore civility to ourselves and our institutions - that we can make the spiritual commitment that is a cornerstone of civility.Letters to thinkers: further thoughts on lateral thinking
By Edward De Bono. 1987
Edward De Bono originated the concept of lateral thinking, an approach specifically concerned with changing concepts and perceptions. In these…
letters he continues his thinking about thinking, expands on his methods and provides exercises to develop creative thinking skills.They cannot take the sky
By Michael Green, Angelica Neville, Andrea Dao, Dana Affleck, Sienna Merope. 2017
For more than two decades, Australia has locked up people who arrive here fleeing persecution - sometimes briefly, sometimes for…
years. In They Cannot Take the Sky those people tell their stories, in their own words. Speaking from inside immigration detention on Manus Island and Nauru, or from within the Australian community after their release, the narrators reveal not only their extraordinary journeys and their daily struggles but also their meditations on love, death, hope and injustice. Their candid testimonies are at times shocking and hilarious, surprising and devastating. They are witnesses from the edge of human experience.The first-person narratives in They Cannot Take the Sky range from epic life stories to heartbreaking vignettes. The narrators who have shared their stories have done so despite the culture of silence surrounding immigration detention, and the real risks faced by those who speak out. Once you have heard their voices, you will never forget them.One world: the ethics of globalisation
By Peter Singer. 2002
How can we resolve questions about the environment and climate change without international co-operation? What do we make of the…
refusal of the US and Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol? Why do people protest so violently against the World Trade Organisation? What obligations do countries have to participate in an international system of justice? Do rich countries such as Australia and the US give enough in foreign aid? What are our obligations to foreigners as part of the community of nations? In asking these and other questions, Peter Singer asks us to consider what a global ethic could mean.How ethical is Australia?: an examination of Australia's record as a global citizen (Public interest series.)
By Peter Singer, Tom Gregg. 2004
How Ethical Is Australia? assesses how well Australia is performing as a global citizen. It examines five areas of government…
policy with a global impact - foreign aid, the United Nations, overseas trade, the environment and refugees. Our record in four of these, the authors say, is not one 'of which any nation would be proud'. This essay, by the renowned Australian philosopher Peter Singer, argues that the Australian government ought to do more than pursue narrow, short-term national interests. He asserts that Australia could and ought to be doing its part to make the world a better place, by working to protect the global environment and to reduce poverty worldwide. A more ethical approach to the world beyond Australia's borders is also in our national interest - if we take a broad, long-term view of what our national interests are.The ethical state?: social liberalism in Australia
By Marian Sawer. 2003
The ethical state--a state committed to the common good and equal opportunity--was a central tenet of the social-liberal theory that…
emerged in Britain in the late nineteenth century. The new nation of Australia enthusiastically embraced the ideal. Translated as the 'fair go', and accepted by major policy makers on both the left and right of politics, social liberalism gave rise to the distinctively Australian institution of wage arbitration, and to other aspects of the welfare state such as public education, parks and pensions. For early Australian feminists it offered the alluring prospect of equality with men. A century later, the idea of the fair go may still resonate in political rhetoric, but liberalism has become a somewhat tarnished ideal. The dream of the ethical state lies in tatters, eroded by economic rationalism and user-pays ideology, and degraded by political machination. Has the social-liberal vision of the state as a vehicle for social justice completely run its course?Left, right, left: political essays 1977-2005
By Robert Manne. 2005
Robert Manne's political trajectory - from right to left - has been an unusual and intriguing one. In the course…
of it, he has written definitive accounts of many of the key public controversies of the past thirty years - from the Cold War to the Iraq War, from the Stolen Generations to the asylum-seekers, from Australian party politics to the culture wars. His two Quarterly Essays "In Denial" and "Sending Them Home", are published here complete, as are controversial discussions of political correctness, pornography and euthanasia as well as gentler thoughts on childhood, the university and the Geelong Football Club. There is also an array of passionate essays on subjects ranging from Geoffrey Blainey to Paul Keating, Helen Garner to George Orwell, Pauline Hanson to Noel Pearson.The triumph of the airheads: and the retreat from commonsense
By Shelley Gare. 2006
We live in a world where ignorance is not just bliss, it's celebrated. Celebrities are multiplying like tadpoles; millionaires are…
breeding even faster; values have gone out the window, and commonsense has run off with the pool-boy. Soon we'll be talking about Paris Hilton for US president. Shelley Gare has written a book about how our society is losing the plot. In a series of snapshots covering everything from the rise of the jargon-speaking HR manager to our obsession with cushions, cafes and lifestyle, from the rise of the empty-headed It-girls to the multi-million dollar payouts to failed CEOs, The Triumph of the Airheads looks at how our society has been turned upside-down.Why the war was wrong
By Raimond Gaita. 2003
The war in Iraq is over, so we are told, but huge questions remain unanswered. Why were we lied to…
about the existence of weapons of mass destruction? Why do we still not know how many Iraqis died in the invasion? Why was John Howard so eager to commit Australian troops? Was the invasion legal under international law? And how can we reconcile this critical questioning with the knowledge of how Iraqis suffered under Saddam Hussein? In Why the War Was Wrong, leading Australian writers give their answers. Arguing from legal, political, historical, philosophical and humanitarian standpoints, they aim to make a passionate case for the primacy of our responsibilities to our fellow human beings. With contributions by Robert Manne, Guy Rundle, Eva Sallis, Raimond Gaita, Hilary Charlesworth, Peter Coghlan, and Mark McKenna.Gallipoli correspondent: the frontline diary of C.E.W. Bean
By C. E. W. Bean, Kevin Fewster. 1983
Something for nothing (Lachie Munro #1)
By Andy Muir. 2017
It’s not every day a bloke stumbles on a dismembered torso on Nobby’s Beach. Lachie Munro is starting to feel…
like he’s is a magnet for trouble. The day before he fished a giant haul of heroin out of his favourite abalone poaching spot near Newcastle.There’s a better than even chance that the two are connected and he should leave well enough alone. But the opportunity to clear his gambling debt and get ahead of the game is too good to pass up. But how do you sell several kilos of heroin? It’s not like drug dealers are listed in the Yellow Pages. And what happens when the owners come looking for their missing package? Is the torso a warning to anyone thinking of crossing them? Now a person of interest to the police, Lachie needs to stay one step ahead of them, a local bikie he’s managed to insult, play off a big time dealer from Sydney, placate the neighbour’s labrador, Horace, and win the heart of the gorgeous new Fisheries Officer he’s fallen for. Or will he discover that getting into the gun sights of the crooked, the dodgy and the downright shady characters of Newcastle and beyond is more than a man can handle. But, if Lachie can pull it all off, he might just get Something for Nothing.A banker all at sea
By F. S Holt. 1983
Retired banker Fred Holt provides a vivid and human account of his service in the Australian Naval Reserve during World…
War Two, from his time as an ordinary seaman on HMS "Panther" to his promotion to Second Lieutenant in 1954.In Europe: travels through the twentieth century
By Geert Mak. 2008
Geert Mak spent 1999 crisscrossing Europe, tracing the history of the continent from Verdun to Berlin, from Saint Petersburg to…
Auschwitz, from Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe on the cusp of a new millennium. The result is an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports, and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players - from a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno, the eighteen-year-old ticket taker at the gate of the Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.The reason for God: belief in an age of skepticism
By Timothy J Keller. 2008
Although a vocal minority continues to attack religious faith, for most Americans, faith is a large part of their lives:…
86% of Americans refer to themselves as religious, and 75% of all Americans consider themselves Christians. So how should they respond to these passionate, learned, and persuasive books that promote science and secularism over religion and faith? For years, Tim Keller has compiled a list of the most frequently voiced "doubts" skeptics bring to his Manhattan church; here, he dismantles each of them. Written with atheists, agnostics, and skeptics in mind, Keller also provides an intelligent platform on which true believers can stand their ground when bombarded by the backlash. This book challenges such ideology at its core and points to the true path and purpose of Christianity.