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In this powerful collection, Australian writers explore the complex relationship between writing and justice, a relationship that necessarily involves the ethics of reading. These essays demonstrate how it is possible for writing to articulate concerns of justice, enlighten the broader community and move citizens to action.

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Through the text and images of the places associated with the outbreak of bushranging, photographer Brendon Kelson and John McQuilton (history and politics, U. of Wollongong) tell about Ned Kelley, who was hanged for murder in Australia, and whose story has attracted the attention of a range of peop

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Kitty's War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except many decades apart.

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An evaluation of the political career of Mike Ahern, Premier of Queensland from 1987-1989. His hard-won reputation as a progressive leader is explored, bringing into sharp focus the dramatic divide between the person and the politician.

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For most people, 1961 was just something you had to pass through to get to where you wanted to go. And for fifteen-year-old Bobby it was no different - only he was going down. It began simply enough, with a job at Paton Electrical in Sydney's inner west, working as an errand boy for Mr Hardaker a man with more sides to him than a cut diamond.

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Contains essays that look at the legal issues and ramifications of identity theft and financial fraud. This title considers fraudulent impersonation, its escalation and its effect on contract in the modern era as transactions become increasingly reliant on pins, codes, and account numbers.

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When Liam Kelly's girlfriend Sara, leaves Australia to back-pack around Europe, Liam's friends expect him to play up, and he does, in that no one could imagine.

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When Cassandra and her brothers climb the garden wall hoping to spot the ghost in the old hollow-eyed house, they have no idea what awaits within. Suddenly, and then seductively, they are drawn into a world long lost, a world preserved by a woman whose memories have kept her trapped in time and place. Australian author. Ages 10+.

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Established in 1979, Time Off was the first free music/ entertainment weekly in Australia. Here are some of the best interviews and articles from the magazine's first thirty years - from bands on the cusp of greatness to megastars at the height of their powers. Time Off had a fiercely independent and wry voice. Off the Record reflects this.

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An honest and moving account of one family's struggle when dealing with cancer. It details Chrissie Grainger's life after her father's diagnosis; she has to start a new school, which she hates, and she feels alienated from the other children. Ages 14+.

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A collection of essays that aims to give a broad view of the way humour operates in Australian culture. There are very few scholarly works that attempt to study humour that we have come to associate with being Australia. This book looks at the humourous culture that Australia does have, within the essays.

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Australia is the land of the 'fair go'. But does this attitude extend to freedom of speech Katharine Gelber shows why many of Australia's laws and policies, supported by the wider public, are actually harmful to democratic participation in politics. Gelber investigates a wide range of political expression to see how we value free speech.

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Bonnie wanted to be the best at something. She lives on a farm on the far edge of town. When her teacher announces the best pet competition Bonnie is determined to get a pet and teach it to do tricks. But nothing turns out as intended, and when the farm animals come to the aid of the circus, Bonnie's real talents are revealed. Ages 7+.

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There is a secret war going on in Australia. It is a war of technology versus nature; of 'mechanics' against 'organics'. On one side is the medical establishment and the obstetricians; on the other are midwives and natural birth practitioners. Mothers-to-be are caught in the middle. A look at the contentious climate around pregnancy and birth.

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A collection poems which reflect the value that the poet placed on pioneering bush traditions, the life of the Australian working man, and the ANZAC tradition, while at the same time showing a championing of the roles and rights of women.

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This comprehensive volume of Gilmore's poetry covers the period from 1887 to 1929. It re-unites 388 previously uncollected poems with those chosen from her published collections of this period. Paperback ISBN 9780702235924 ARP $80.

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Some secrets take a lifetime to tell. An unexpected letter from her childhood friend Grace forces May to relive their extraordinary past and confront the events that drove them apart fifty years earlier.

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The Fern Tattoo is a beguiling novel about the certainty of fate and the randomness of love that announces David Brooks' return as one of Australia's most distinctive literary novelists.

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Missionary Amen Morley arrives on a tropical island to find a community largely untouched by the modern world. A magnet for eccentric characters, the island paradise soon becomes a hotspot of conflicting cultures.

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Presents a volume of poems, from one of Australia's leading experimental poets, Laurie Duggan, whos work is smart, spare, iconic and understated.

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A finely crafted novel about an eccentric man who is not only set in his ways but unapologetic about his many flaws.