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John Button was rare man, rare for any time, any place and in any calling. The public face – the Senator John Button, long-time Leader of the Government in the Senate, the hands-on, hard-hat minister of the Button car plan, the policy innovator and party reformer, the straight talker, unbridled political wit, notorious doodler, note writer, and scribbler of politically incorrect postcards to Senator Bronwyn Bishop (imagine it!) – that is the John Button Australia knows. His achievements have been many and they are exemplary.
... (read more)Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation by Antonia Finnane
Drawing the Global Colour line: White men’s countries and the question of racial equality by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
The Best Australian Political Writing 2008 edited by Tony Jones
The Word Spy by Ursula Dubosarsky (illus. Tohby Riddle) & The Reading Bug and How to Help Your Child Catch It by Paul Jennings
Genius Squad by Catherine Jinks & At Seventeen by Celeste Walters
Lifting the flap
Dear Editor,
I had always believed that the only thing worse than a bad review was not to be reviewed at all, to be ignored. Now I find that there is something even more galling: to be reviewed by someone who is more concerned to air his and other peo ...