Faction Man
With a federal election looming in the first half of 2019, there seems little choice but for the national politics to swing back around to have a Labour government. The [...]
With a federal election looming in the first half of 2019, there seems little choice but for the national politics to swing back around to have a Labour government. The [...]
This quarter’s Quarterly Essay was by Sebastian Smee - Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age - about how the digital age, particularly social media, is changing how we [...]
I hadn’t heard of this project until I was given this book for Christmas by a colleague - Dear Santa by Samuel Johnson. He apparently appealed to a whole bunch [...]
This quarter, the latest Quarterly Essay was another political piece - Follow the Leader by Laura Tingle - ‘democracy and the rise of the strongman’. After reading this, I have [...]
This quarter’s Quarterly Essay is Dead Right by Richard Denniss. I have seen Richard Denniss speak - an economist fighting for women’s issues - and I was really eager to [...]
I bought and read Cicada by Shaun Tan after listening to an interview with him on The Garrett podcast. I had seen one of the images of cicada, but I [...]
Over the last week or so, I have read Mark McKenna’s Quarterly Essay: ‘Moment of Truth; History and Australia’s Future’. The reading produced a moment of truth for me! And [...]
I recently read Benjamin Law’s essay, Moral Panic 101, in the Quarterly Essay. It had me thinking about all the places I had been hearing about ‘moral panic’ lately, and [...]
With all the material that I have to read, it took a while for me to get to the publication put out by the Victorian Women Lawyers’ group. There were [...]