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A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks exposés edited by Felicity Ruby and Peter Cronau
by Kieran Pender •
Fake Law: The truth about justice in an age of lies by The Secret Barrister
by Kieran Pender •
China’s Grand Strategy and Australia’s Future in the New Global Order by Geoff Raby
by Hugh White •
The Other Side of Absence: Discovering my father’s secrets by Betty O’Neill
by Iva Glisic •
The Coal Curse: Resources, climate and Australia’s future (Quarterly Essay 78) by Judith Brett
by Cameron Muir •
British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the Empire by Kama Maclean
by Chris Wallace •
A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s battle to remake Christian Europe by Giuliana Chamedes
by Paul Collins •
Lexicographers, especially historical ones, are always interested in the way words fall in and out of fashion. But while we spend a lot of time tracing the first usage of a word and trying to figure out its origins, we pay much less attention to when or why a word falls out of common usage.
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