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Melbourne writer Sarah Krasnostein has won Australia’s richest literary prize at the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. She was presented the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature last night in Melbourne for her debut novel The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster. It tells the true story of Melbourne transgender woman Sandra Pankhurst’s life
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Like James Joyce and other literary exiles, Peter Carey left his homeland to live elsewhere and has never ceased writing about the place he departed. A permanent resident of New York for almost 30 years, Carey, in his 14th novel, offers a densely imagined recreation of the Australia of his youth. It is also one of the
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The shortlist for the tenth Indie Book Awards has been announced. The winners will be announced on March 26, 2018 in Hobart. FICTION SHORTLIST Force of Nature by Jane Harper (Pan Macmillan Australia) The Choke by Sofie Laguna (Allen & Unwin) On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong (Text Publishing) City of Crows by Chris
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By Shane Murphy
Meat Loaf’s name and his eventual legacy might forever be tainted in Australia by the inglorious spectacle of his 2011 AFL Grand Final performance. We can blame the AFL for this piece of wishful thinking/lack of intuition about their punters, but around 15 minutes of a badly sung, greatest hits pastiche is apparently all it takes to damage your
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Adelaide Writers’ Week director Laura Kroetsch recommends a selection of compelling fiction and non-fiction books for the summer holidays. *** There are few things as wonderful as planning for a great summer of reading. So to get you started, I’ve put together a list of excellent reads. My fiction picks begin with a walk on
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The following extract from Luke Harding’s Collusion is an exposé about the biggest political scandal of the modern era. Harding is the author of The Snowden Files. He was a foreign correspondent with The Guardian and its Moscow bureau chief between 2007 and 2011. The Kremlin expelled him from the country in the first case of its kind since the
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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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