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Thanks Martin! I had such fun getting all the books out and thinking about them as a body of work.
Australian author Helen Garner is now so famous and well-regarded that to say you don’t like her has almost become a badge of honour among rebels, which I think is sad. Wrote this piece for @artshub.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
50,000 year old art. Oldest known representation of a human face. Industrial pollution WILL damage. "Private negotiations". Remediation delayed. As @adammorton.bsky.social argues here, these laws do NOT work.
Aircraft bought to run Sydney-Perth etc. Toilet services may be limited for the first three years of operation, please use the amenity bag in the seat pocket............
For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.
And taking the trash out on Friday afternoon too
Such a great article explaining why the vibes are so bad on socials now.
Thanks Jennifer! 🙏🏼
RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
So many unanswered questions posed in this excellent piece on the Meanjin closure. eg.
-Why the sudden irreversible decision?
-Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)?
-Why the secrecy?
-Why use the financial viability argument now?
As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.
There’s still time for some adventures! ‘Big’ birthdays can be a catalyst.
I do miss the film peeps though.
I feel like I've become an apostate these last few years. It just doesn't do it for me in the same way it used to. Time is so precious and leaving the house is so hard! (And books are so good)
I read this recently for book club and really enjoyed it. Dystopian women's fiction I probably wouldn't normally read, but so haunting. It's interesting how it's become a big deal on BookTok all these years after publication.
Is it even trying?!
It's never too late to break up, quit, come out, move, transition, divorce, change your life, start something new. If you choose to stay with something that makes you miserable, you owe yourself a better justification than sunk cost.
Thanks Martin! A pity they didn’t mention my book too but you know, it’s the ABC 😊
Beyond Monogamy. The ABCTV episode of Compass that I participated in is available to watch now. They treated us well.
The authors wright: As fascism always does, today’s Armageddon complex crosses class lines, bonding billionaires to the Maga base. Thanks to decades of deepening economic stresses, alongside ceaseless and skillful messaging pitting workers against one another, a great many people understandably feel unable to protect themselves from the disintegration that surrounds them (no matter how many months of ready-to-eat meals they buy). But there are emotional compensations on offer: you can cheer the end of affirmative action and DEI, glorify mass deportation, enjoy the denial of gender-affirming care to trans people, villainize educators and health workers who think they know better than you, and applaud the demise of economic and environmental regulations as a way to own the libs. End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy. It’s also a self-reinforcing downward spiral: Trump’s furious attacks on every structure designed to protect the public from diseases, dangerous foods and disasters – even to tell the public when disasters are headed their way – strengthen the case for prepperism at both the high and low ends, all while creating myriad new opportunities for privatization and profiteering by the oligarchs powering this rapid-fire unmaking of the social and regulatory state.
"The rise of end times fascism" by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor is an outstanding work. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Recommended.
Did Alan Jones or John Laws ever require an authorisation to end their interviews with every Liberal leader ever by declaring they should be/remInt Prime Minister?
i'm not an electoral lawyer but this story seems like bullshit. The host of one of Australia's most popular podcasts and a TV presenter is clearly a media producer and so doesn't need an electoral auth. How is this any different to the SMH endorsing a PM candidate? or whatever Sky News broadcasts.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign if you care about writers being properly paid: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
I’m quite interested to know whether Peter Dutton’s plan to abolish the federal Department of Education also includes abolishing the Australian Research Council, the main body funding university research in this country
Happy birthday to you! Hope you have a beautiful day
You know what we really can afford to cut completely?
Funding to send humans to Mars.
Enjoyed reading and writing about this memoir. Sent me back to Porter’s verse novels too and made me wish I had a big sis.
Image showing covers of books Long Yarn Short by Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, The Pool by Hannah Tunnicliffe, and Double Happiness by Rochelle Siemienowicz.
Yes! There's another big book bundle to be won in our Last Days of Summer #BookGiveaway today. But hurry - entries close midnight TONIGHT Wed 19 Feb 2025:
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