The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay
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Category: Social Discourse
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It by Alan Kohler
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Category: Social Discourse
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
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
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Category: Social Discourse
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
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Category: Social Discourse
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
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
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Category: Social Discourse
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef by Paul Hardisty
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Category: Social Discourse
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's leading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer). In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everyt ...Show more
I Don't - The case against marriage by Clementine Ford
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Category: Social Discourse
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
You Talk, We Die: the battle for Victoria's first safe injecting facility by Judy Ryan
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Category: Social Discourse
'If not us, who? If not now, when?' You Talk, We Die is a highly personalised account of inner-city residents uniting in desperation to change their state government's response to a major health problem- people struggling with drug addiction.Heroin addiction and its tragic consequences are a key feature ...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: Social Discourse
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
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
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Category: Social Discourse
Imagine a world where… Your phone is too big for your hand Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplac ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
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Category: Social Discourse
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
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Category: Social Discourse
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more