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Feminists fatale
By Jan Bowen. 1998
This book considers the lives of 17 influential and successful women. Amongst others, Geraldine Doogue, Helen Garner and Poppy King…
all share their personal stories while examining the implications for our society of women's changing roles.Midnight in the garden of good and evil: a Savannah story
By John Berendt. 1995
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or…
self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. Life in this isolated remnant of the Old South is interspersed with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case, peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters. There are the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle, the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight.This wonderfully warm Cold War memoir is full of unforgettable characters and events. It follows the formative years of the…
author from the home front to original sin and first love. It also charts his adventures with the amazing and inventive Jim Egoroff.The four Australians featured in this book all decided to leave Australia in the late 1950's or early 1960's. The…
author studies the reasons for their expatriation, combining biography, social history and cultural criticism to consider what aspects of their Australian identity - if any - they have retained.The great feminist denial
By Monica Dux, Zora Simic. 2008
Feminism has been a bad, bad girl. All around us, feminism is getting the blame for women not having babies.…
For the stress of working mothers. And for the rise of 'raunchy culture'. It seems that the final feminist destination is a sordid, selfish mess. What happened? Why has feminism gone from being a movement that was there to help women, to one that is held responsible for much of what ails them? And what does feminism really stand for? Monica Dux and Zora Simic - who do call themselves feminists - examine the popular debates in which feminism stands accused. They show how this Great Feminist Denial is suppressing genuine debate about the problems that women face, and preventing real feminism from providing the solutions that it still has to offer.It's not my fault they print them
By Catherine Deveny. 2007
Each week in the pages of the Age, Catherine Deveny tackles the big issues of modern life with hilarity and…
passion and in her own inimitable style. From 4WD owners to Nick Giannopolous to women who take their husband’s name, Deveny isn’t backward about coming forward. It’s Not My Fault They Print Them collects Deveny’s funniest, most biting work, published and unpublishable (till now). It includes her views on elective caesareans, private education, McLeod’s Daughters, Sam Newman and much, much more.Growing up Asian in Australia
By Alice Pung. 2008
Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection they tell their own stories with verve,…
courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner-table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one’s feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great-grandfather’s Chinese village. Here are well-known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat-Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more.Asylum: voices behind the razor wire
By Heather Tyler. 2003
This book documents the impact that Australia's policy of mandatory detention of asylum-seekers is having on the physical and emotional…
well-being of men, women and children, and explores the role the media has played. Asylum gives voice to the real people behind the sensationalism, with first-hand accounts from asylum-seekers themselves. What happened to them in their own countries that made them feel they had to leave, their dangerous journeys to get to Australia, and the treatment they have received in detention centres. They stitch up their lips, go on hunger strikes, burn Australian buildings on Australian soil. Who are these desperate people and what enrages them so much?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?Dear Mr. Rudd: ideas for a better Australia
By Robert Manne. 2008
With the election of the Rudd government, there is revived interest in the nation’s future - both the challenges and…
the opportunities. What kind of future can we imagine for Australia? Dear Mr Rudd offers new essays by leading Australian thinkers on the key areas of interest: climate change, indigenous affairs, the economy, human rights, education, health, the republic and much more besides. Each essay serves up in a readable and inspiring way a set of new ideas to consider. This is not an academic contribution or a set of policy statements. Rather, at this time of national renewal, it is an invitation to debate and discussion issued by many passionate and imaginative Australians.The Australians: insiders & outsiders on the national character since 1770
By J. B Hirst. 2007
John Hirst has assembled the key assessments of the national character of Australia and Australians. There are insiders and outsiders.…
There is celebration and criticism. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like. Hirst provides a set of introductory essays to accompany his selections.Alice Springs (Cities)
By Eleanor Hogan. 2012
Alice Springs, Alice, The Alice, Mparntwe is the most talked about but least familiar place in Australia. It is a…
town of extremes and contradictions: searingly hot and bitterly cold, thousands of miles from anywhere, the heart of black Australia and the headquarters of the controversial NT Intervention. It's seen as a place where blokes are blokes, yet the town has a high lesbian population. It is the gateway to the red centre, but relatively few Australians have been there. Its striking landscape and modern facilities attract those looking for a desert change, yet it is a town where frontier conflicts still hold sway. Eleanor Hogan's Alice Springs reveals the texture of everyday life in this town through the passage of the local seasons.Easter Island: the mystery solved
By Thor Heyerdahl. 1989
Heyerdahl returns to Easter Island to try to unravel the mystery of the haunting statues that stud the ancient island…
and to prove that early man travelled further and faster than previously expected.Adelaide (Cities)
By Kerryn Goldsworthy. 2011
A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in…
parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps. Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of iconic objects.1901: Australian life at Federation : an illustrated chronicle
By Aedeen Cremin. 2000
Provides an account of the way in which Australians lived at the time of Federation and includes special information on…
topics such as : rural life in Australia; life in the cities; the lifestyle of the Chinese and other minority groups; and immigrants.Black kettle and full moon: daily life in a vanished Australia
By Geoffrey Blainey. 2003
Master storyteller Geoffrey Blainey takes the reader on another absorbing journey - a guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering…
the years from the first gold rush to World War I. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived - in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land. He looks at all aspects of daily life, from billycans to brass bands, from ice-making to etiquette, from pipes to pubs.Tim Fischer's outback heroes: and communities that count
By Peter Rees, Tim Fischer. 2002
Coming from every corner of Australia, this collection of stories shows the never-say-die spirit of those who live in regional…
Australia; the people and communities who see opportunity and the chance for renewal where others see dust. The authors show that the 'have a go' spirit of the bush means adapting to the challenges of the new century with canny thinking, hard work and a refusal to give up.