Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Non Fiction
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
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Category: Non Fiction
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay #93) by Lech Blaine
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Category: Non Fiction
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
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Category: Non Fiction
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
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Category: Non Fiction
What if everything we've been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to ...Show more
‘Your body belongs to the nation & other public health lobby errors by Gary Johns
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Category: Non Fiction
Governments have begun to act as if your body belongs to them. They have become a parent, telling child-like citizens how to behave: instructing, forbidding, taxing and berating citizens about their personal choices.
Danger On Our Doorstep by Jim Molan
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Category: Non Fiction
An unsettling assessment of how - and when - war with China might break out and the consequences for the world, from bestselling author, ex-major general Jim Molan What are Australia's options in confronting a rising and belligerent China?For the first time in nearly 80 years, war on our doorstop is not ...Show more
Banned Books by DK
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Category: Non Fiction
A compelling illustrated account of history's most famous banned written worksDiscover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published.Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is "acceptable" in published works hav ...Show more
I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else by Tom Ballard
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Category: Non Fiction
After 30 years of his entitled Millennial life and one buy-now-pay-later pandemic, comedian Tom Ballard has had enough of the smashed avocado jokes. He's furious at the raw deal his (and every subsequent) generation has been given, and he's pretty sure things can't be this crappy because of brunch. In h ...Show more
The One Thing We've Never Spoken About: Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis by Elfy Scott
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Category: Non Fiction
An investigation into the failings of Australia's mental healthcare system, grounded in a personal story of a mother daughter relationshipJournalist Elfy Scott grew up in a household where her mother's schizophrenia was rarely, if ever, spoken about. They navigated this silence outside the family home t ...Show more
No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works (and why you should care) by Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler
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Category: Non Fiction
Understand the news stories that matter. Be part of the important conversations. And feel confident - whether you're walking into a date, a work event or a voting booth. From the creators of the phenomenally successful news service The Daily Aus comes your ultimate playbook for how the world works.Do yo ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more