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Mallee Country: Land, people, history by Richard Broome et al.
by Lilian Pearce •
The Impeachers: The trial of Andrew Johnson and the dream of a just nation by Brenda Wineapple
by Samuel Watts •
I am from a very large island, a continent in fact. Yet smaller islands have meant more to me – trips to Bribie Island with my grandmother to drink shandies and eat crab sandwiches; two years living in an expatriate Australian community on the Malaysian island of Penang; an object lesson in the power of oceans while visiting American Samoa, when my then boyfriend and I were carried by the tide beyond the coral reef we were exploring with snorkels. In my part of the world, small islands often connote tourism, but they also serve other objects. There is a vanishing point where paradise becomes isolation, where utility meets strategy and where purpose matters more than people.
... (read more)Yellow Notebook: Diaries, Volume I, 1978–1987 by Helen Garner
by Peter Rose •