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A powerful and impressive debut from one of Australia's most exciting young writers -- for fans of Alice Munro, Nam Le, Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan

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Charts the course of music over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, linking it to developments in literature, theatre, cinema and the visual arts, and to popular music from Irving Berlin to The Beatles to rap. The result is a stimulating, provocative and always informative cultural history.

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Attacks the right-wing campaign against the 'Bringing Them Home' report which revealed how thousands of Aborigines had been taken from their parents.

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"With a new essay on Turnbull in power"--Title page.

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The Family Court was a progressive reform of the 1970s. Now it is the most hated institution in Australia. What went wrong This is a searching critique of its failures and injustices, supported by accounts of those who have suffered at its hands, with suggestions for change.

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In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Toohey examines the wholesale attempt to change an entrenched way of life. He takes a perceptive, at time humorous, look at the encounter between outsiders, doctors, police, military and bureaucrats, and Territory Aboriginals.

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In Lives , an extraordinary writer encounters some remarkable people; and evokes their inner lives. Peter Robb has an uncanny ability to get into the skin of other people: to show them in a new light, to home on what makes them tick. In Australia, these range from Alex Dimitriades to Ivan Milat, from Marcia Langton to Julian Assange.

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In these essays, John Hirst delves into Australia's history, politics and society. He selects the best history books and explores the idea that Australian Rules has its origins in Aboriginal pastimes. He examines our convict legacy, its contribution to the national character, and our peculiar adoption of bushmen and bushrangers as popular heroes.

(Paperback, 29th edition)

The author looks at the challenge of balancing love and economics, and the value our society places on both. Examining how paid work has become 'sacred' for many, she argues that any true definition of equality has to take into account the fact of dependency and care for others. Australian author.

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Dorothy Porter writes about love, sex, heartbreak and desire like no one else. Love Poems collects her most powerful love poetry: portraits of longing and infatuation, of bliss, passion, uncertainty and devotion. It includes extracts from her award-winning and best-selling verse novels, as well as poems and lyrics spanning her whole career.

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Australia's British inheritance is a paradox that has preoccupied much of Malouf's fiction, and now it gives rise to a brilliant essay exploring Australia's connection with our one-time 'mother-country'. Malouf ponders the strengths and weaknesses, the values and illusions of Australia's complex relationship with England.

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From the pubs of the Sydney Push to New York's nightclubs, Lillian Roxon set the pace for an era that changed the world. Her Rock Encyclopedia, published in 1969, was the first book of its kind and established Roxon as a leading critic and chronicler of rock culture. Mother of Rock is a riveting portrait of an Australian trailblazer.

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(Paperback, 24th edition)

In this scholarly, yet passionate essay the author explores the paradoxes and strengths of nomadism, in both its traditional and modern forms.

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'During the term of the Rudd and Gillard governments, criticism of the Labor Party became a national pastime.' So writes Mark Latham, a one-time leader of the party and still its most perceptive - and fiercest - critic. In Quarterly Essay 49 , Latham argues that the time has come to go beyond criticism to solutions.