December 2017, no. 397

December 2017, no. 397

2017 Books of the Year

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'Picnic at Hanging Rock fifty years on' by Marguerite Johnson

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'Victory for Equality' by Peter Rose

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Please Explain by Anna Broinowksi & Rogue Nation by Royce Kurmelovs

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News from the Editor's Desk - December 2017

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'When sport and politics collide' by Kieran Pender

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Facing Gaia: Eight lectures on the new climaticregime by Bruno Latour, translated by Catherine Porter

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Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker by A.N. Wilson

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Border Districts by Gerald Murnane

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The Dismissal Dossier: Everything you were never meant to know about November 1975 by Jenny Hocking

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Wednesdays with Bob by Bob Hawke and Derek Rielly

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The Souls of China: The return of religion after Mao by Ian Johnson

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Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s decline: From Obama to Trump and beyond by Gideon Rachman

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The First Casualty by Peter Greste

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Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother’s Story by Brenda Niall

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The Book of Thistles by Noëlle Janaczewska

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How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb & This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay

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'Ithaca Road' by Philip Mead

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'Swan' by Zoë Brigley Thompson

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Demi-Gods by Eliza Robertson

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Atlantic Black by A.S. Patrić

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Half Wild by Pip Smith

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The Pacific Room by Michael Fitzgerald

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Dancing Home by Paul Collis

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Drawing Sybylla by Odette Kelada

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Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman

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Bad to Worse by Robert Edeson

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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year by Peter Brooks

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The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the settlers and the protectors by Bain Attwood

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Moral Panic 101: Equality, acceptance and the Safe Schools scandal (Quarterly Essay 67) by Benjamin Law

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Australian Gypsies: Their secret history by Mandy Sayer

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The Best Australian Poems 2017 edited by Sarah Holland-Batt

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These Things Are Real by Alan Wearne

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A Long Saturday: Conversations by George Steiner and Laure Adler

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The Death and Life of Australian Soccer by Joe Gorman

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Collecting for the Nation: The Australiana Fund by Jennifer Sanders

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Letters to the Editor - December 2017

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Democracy in Chains: The deep history of the radical right’s stealth plan for America by Nancy MacLean

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