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Radio and television personality Meshel Laurie is also a practising Buddhist. In her new book Buddhism for the unbelievably busy (Black Inc.), she explores how applying some basic Buddhist tenets can help how to juggle the demands of work, children, ageing parents – and in this chapter below – how to stop craving for consumables you don’t really need. *** I’M
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Those who would like to see less money spent on stuff that’s thrown away, and more spent on education, health and creativity, need to get better at making friends and influencing people. No point in getting angry and shouting, economist Richard Denniss seems to say. His cheerful, pleasant, informative approach will give hope and encouragement
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In this extract from Curing Affluenza (Black Inc), Dr Richard Denniss tackles a root cause of the affluenza epidemic – neoliberalism. Until recently, Denniss was the head of the Australia Institute and is now its chief economist. He has spent the last 20 years working in policy in academia, federal politics and think tanks. He is co-author of Affluenza and
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A few years back Mt Alexander Shire council in Central Victoria sent a letter to residents, seeking input into the choice of name for a little road created to give access to a bush block. It was a nice letter, worthily suggesting that residents’ opinions mattered and would be taken in to account. Bloke next
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As both a grandmother and author of a book about the power of the role of the arts in mental health, this book hits home with a resounding jolt. I found its revelations shocking and confrontational but it is overflowing with valuable information, solutions and resources for the issues it raises. Dr Ramesh Manoocha and
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It seems that every high street bookseller has shelves straining under the weight of 21st century doctrines for self-improvement — on how to be happy, think positively and achieve a state of wellbeing, whatever that is. This is a burgeoning industry which has crept into our consciousness over the last few years, epitomised by colouring
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Let us not ask what makes a politician, but rather, what makes a good politician. Judith Brett’s The Enigmatic Mr Deakin goes some way towards answering that question. This is biography for our times. Those for whom the standard remains the academic-style biography with its apparently invisible writer and authoritative tone may disagree but, in
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The Writers on Writers series, published by Black Inc, is a series of short essays in which acclaimed authors celebrate their favourite writers. Alice Pung, the writer of Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter and Laurinda writes about John Marsden, the author of famed Young Adult novels including the Tomorrow, When the War Began series. *** Dear John, The
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Gabriella Coslovich, a former Age arts journalist, tells Daily Review about writing Whiteley on Trial, her new book that follows the twists and turns of Australia’s biggest case of alleged art fraud. A jury had found two men guilty of faking major works by the late Brett Whiteley, but this year an appeal bench sensationally acquitted the pair and
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Sometimes the best advice tells us to go against conventional wisdom. Pierre Bayard, for one, seems to think that not doing certain things widely assumed to be good for us might be the best way to achieve something truly meaningful, or at least satisfying, in life. Bayard is a Paris-based literature professor and psychoanalyst. He
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