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Inside story: from ABC foreign correspondent to Singapore prisoner #12988
Par Peter Lloyd. 2010
The much-anticipated and extraordinarily compelling account of Peter Lloyd's very public fall from grace - and the harrowing true stories…
behind the events that he witnessed as a foreign correspondent for the ABC.Our boys at the Front: the Mornington Peninsula at war 1914-18 : from the pages of the Peninsula Post
Par Collins, Michael J. S. 2011
"Nearly 700 Mornington Peninsula 'boys' served overseas in The Great War. Letters, diaries and reminiscences they sent from the war…
zones were published in the local newspaper, The Peninsula Post. They provide first-hand accounts from virtually every campaign in which the Australians were engaged. They are full of humour, drama and sometimes tragedy."Guardians of power: the myth of the liberal media
Par David Edwards, David Cromwell. 2006
Can a corporate media system be expected to tell the truth about a world dominated by corporations? Why did the…
media ignore the claims of UN weapons inspectors that Iraq had been 90-95% 'fundamentally disarmed' as early as 1998? This book answers these questions, and more.Unfettered and alive: a memoir
Par Anne Summers. 2018
The inspiring autobiography of one of Australia's most influential women, from journalist to policy maker to change agent at large.…
'I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade into invisibility as we aged. I defied all of these expectations and so have millions of women like me.' This is the compelling story of Anne Summers' extraordinary life. Her story has her travelling around the world as she moves from job to job, in newspapers and magazines, advising prime ministers, leading feminist debates, writing memorable and influential books. Anne has not been afraid to walk away from success and to satisfy her constant restlessness by charging down new and risky paths. Whatever position she has held, she has expanded what's possible and helped us see things differently-often at high personal cost. Anne shares revealing stories about the famous and powerful people she has worked with or reported on and is refreshingly frank about her own anxieties and mistakes. She shares a heart-breaking story of family violence and tells of her ultimate reconciliation with the father who had rejected her. Unfettered and Alive is a provocative and inspiring memoir from someone who broke through so many boundaries to show what women can do.The first stone: some questions about sex and power
Par Helen Garner. 1995
When two female university students went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party by…
the head of their co-ed residential college, the shock of the accusations split the community. Helen Garner examines the issues of sex and power which surround this incident in a blend of reportage and personal experience.Feminists fatale
Par Jan Bowen. 1998
This book considers the lives of 17 influential and successful women. Amongst others, Geraldine Doogue, Helen Garner and Poppy King…
all share their personal stories while examining the implications for our society of women's changing roles.Fathers
Par Hannah Lewis, Jodie Kewley. 1993
Sixteen Australian men, one who is vision impaired, talk about fatherhood: the rewards and pressures, the decision to have children…
and the birth itself, sexuality and changing relationships, traditional expectations, and juggling work and family life. Contains coarse language.The lot: in words
Par Michael Leunig. 2008
There are few aspects of existence to which Michael Leunig has not turned his renaissance mind, as a bemused and…
committed member of the human plight. From his cartoonist's sensibilities comes a peculiar journalism made of parable, memoir and soliloquy, on subjects ranging from the sublime to the subhuman. From the fragile ecosystem of the spirit to the brutalisation of the modern world. From the joy of primal epiphanies to the wretchedness of the violence we unwittingly commit against each other and our deeper selves each day. To hypocrisy and despair in the political order. Military madness and the media. To violins, artists and newborn foals. The value of the mundane. Emotional mysteries and the night sky. Light and darkness in the national character. The wisdom of the innocent. The sadness of the brain-ridden. Humanity's redeeming pathos and our exquisite inseparability from the natural world... The lot. Even in the smallest, simplest things, Leunig finds the eternal key. And no matter how confronting the topic, he awakens and upholds the funny side. The uplifting side. The side you'd forgotten about - or didn't realise was there.The court reporter
Par Jamelle Wells. 2018
As a seasoned court reporter, the ABC's Jamelle Wells has filed thousands of stories on murderers, sex offenders, thieves, bad…
drivers, family feuds and business deals gone wrong. In more than 10 years, Jamelle has witnessed many of Australia's most notorious and high-profile court cases. In the line of duty, she has sat next to criminals and their families, been chased, spat on, stalked and carted off by ambulance for emergency surgery after an accident outside ICAC. Every day in courts across Australia the evidence, facts and theories are played out in a kind of theatre, with their own characters, costumes and traditions. But ever-present is the human tragedy of ordinary people's lives disrupted, destroyed and forever altered. The judges, the lawyers and barristers, the witnesses and the victims - all striving to play their part in the quest for fairness, justice and always, the truth of what really happened. From the calculated and cruel, to the unfair and unlucky, from pure evil to plain stupid - Jamelle Wells, the court reporter, has seen it all.Whistleblowers
Par Quentin Dempster. 1997
We have all heard of the whistleblower - the lone person who decides that enough is enough, and that they…
must speak out. But what motivates them? What do they go through to expose an issue? How do they deal with their employer, or the authority they are confronting? What are the ramifications - for both employer and individual? In this carefully considered and researched book, the author deals with all these issues.Coming of age: twenty-one interviews about growing older
Par Anne Deveson. 1994
What is it like to grow older? To be sixty, seventy, eighty, even one hundred-and-two years of age? Anne Deveson…
presents a series of wise and humorous interviews with twenty-one women and men who recount their personal experiences in ways that challenge many of our conventional assumptions about old age.No road: bitumen all the way
Par Stephen Muecke. 1997
On a trip north Gloria Brennan, Aboriginal activist, meets a bloke who tries to entice her to visit his community.…
But she wants to know if the road out there is any good. He's puzzled. 'Road? No road,' he says '... no road ... bitumen aaall the way.'. No Road is a seductive mix of storytelling and ideas, and a personal account of travels in outback Australia, Europe, Africa ... and suburban Newtown. Irony and humour invert the usual expectations of a travel book; nobody seems to be going anywhere.