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The most profound shock to Australian foreign policy was not 9/11 but our change of government in 1996. Under Rudd Labor, Australia's international agenda is once again becoming less about national security and more about being a good international citizen.
Grief is a raw and complex emotion, and After Him evokes it beautifully. Anyone who has ever lost someone close to them will empathise with Camille as she copes with the death of her teenage son.
On 28 April 1990, a letter bomb mailed to Michael Lapsley's Harare home destroyed both of his hands and one of his eyes. His life, and 'Healing of Memories' program, proves that it is possible to overcome the trauma of political persecution.
Did Colman's mouse, nibbling his ear, provoke him.. indeed to worship?
Adherents of many religious groups are interviewed about their beliefs, practices, ethical framework and attitude to contemporary Australian society. Their stories often try to make points of contact between religious practice and Western culture.
A socially awkward young man orders an artificial girlfriend over the internet. Despite this ostensibly bawdy premise, Lars and the Real Girl looks beyond lowbrow laughs in its focus on the responses of those in Lars' community.
Camus' plague was a metaphor for the Second World War German occupation of France. Our plague is no metaphor. It's the truth of the planet's advancing impatience with its reckless colonisers.
You find all kinds of books in people's cars — from novels and comics to atlases and bibles. The books people carry reveal something of their life and experiences.
We are all unique individuals but there aren't that many positions in the field.
The Unsual Life of Tristan Smith is an engaging if uncomfortable tale. But a closer reading reveals author Peter Carey as social critic. While themes of colonialism, migration, and identity are explicit, disability enters more subtly.
The teacher gagged.. The friend betrayed.. The healer hung.. The saviour Torn.
For 22 days, Vedran Smailovic played the cello in the ruined Sarajevo market place to honour the 22 people killed there in mortar fire. The Cellist of Sarajevo is a noble book.
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