Our Very Own Brexit: Australia's Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us by Sam Roggeveen

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How did Australian politics get so weird? This book argues that Australia is part of a major shift happening across the world's democracies. Pundits say populism is the big new danger, but they're wrong. Political parties are at the core of democracy, yet all over the West, big parties are hollowing ou t- losing members, voters and the support of key interest groups. Australia is no exception. Our major parties have lost their connection with the public, and with history. As parties weaken, they become less stable, hence Australia's leadership coups. They also become more vulnerable to demands from the political fringes, which is why David Cameron couldn't resist Britain's Eurosceptics. Could Australia have a Brexit moment? Yes. If one of Australia's big parties succumbs to fringe pressure on immigration, Australia too could make a political break from the continent it flanks. ...Show more

China Dependence - Australia's New Vulnerability by Jonathan Pearlman

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The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores Australia's status as the most China-dependent country in the developed world, and the potential risks this poses to its future prosperity and security. China Dependence examines how Australia should respond to the emerging economic and diplomatic challenges as its trade - for the first time - is heavily reliant on a country that is not a close ally or partner. ...Show more

Cosmos Magazine Spring 2017: Issue 76: The Science of Everything by Cosmos Magazine

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Contents of Spring Issue- When it comes to medical cannabis, Israel is providing the world with a vast medical Autism. It's a mystery disease so what exactly in the brain is affected by it? Three oextra large telescopeso that are now on the production line will allow us to zoom into the exoplanets for a closer look. Earth is the only planet to sport tectonic activity and without it life would probably be impossible. But what got this planet-wide conveyor belt operating? We've gone to Pluto and tasted Jupiter's atmosphere. So what's next in space exploration? Dark matter has long been proposed to be the glue that holds the universe together. But it may not always have been so. Contributors to Spring Issue- Elizabeth Finkel Richard A. Lovett Cathal O'Connell Fred Watson Alan Finkel Katie Mack Laurie Zoloth Norman Swan Tim Wallace Belinda Smith Bill Condie Andrew Masterson Amy Middleton ...Show more

Womankind Magazine #18: Fruit Fly (November 2018-January 2019) by Antonia Case (ed.)

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Womankind Magazine by Antonia Case

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Issue 17 (details to follow) Issue 16 Why are ‘successful’ people often miserable? By that I mean people who have risen to the top of their field, be it in television, the arts, business, and so forth. Having reached the pinnacle of their careers, some frantically pen their memoirs reveal ing their inner turmoil, angst, loneliness, and frustration. “Oh, I was miserable,” they cry. “I was anxiety-ridden, and in despair”.   A life coach warns on his blog: it’s a lonely road to the top. “Working towards your own aspirations in life can be very lonely”. As you venture on, he warns, you will begin to feel your isolation.   If reaching the top of one’s career is often accompanied by loneliness and isolation, it makes me question whether our modern definition of ‘success’ - that being to toil away for personal gain, for individual reward and self-aggrandisement - is the only goal worth striving for.   Perhaps our understanding of what makes for a ‘successful’ life should be broadened beyond the personal to make way for goals and achievements that bring glory to more than just oneself. While it’s certainly satisfying to excel personally, there is also something magically exhilarating about working with others to accomplish ends that few could achieve alone. Because for those who do strive for the common good - we might include here the environmentalist, the human rights campaigner, the political activist, the feminist, and so on - a life’s achievement could never be a source of misery, but only elation and joy. ...Show more

Verge 2019 - Uncanny by Stephen Downes (Editor); Calvin Fung (Editor); Amaryllis Gacioppo (Editor)

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The strangely familiar. The alien within the home. The repressed impulse. Bloodsucking counts in castles. Dismembered limbs. Wax models of famous figures. Trying to find a lost car in a parking lot. Being given seat E21 at the cinema when you live at 21 Rose Grove and your 21st birthday was last week. D oppelgängers, ghosts, déjá vu. This is the fourteenth issue of Monash Universitys creative writing journal, Verge. Established and emerging writers have come together to fill this collection with poems, flash fiction, creative non-fiction and short stories that converge on the theme of the uncanny. ...Show more

Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap: Quarterly Essay 75 by Annabel Crabb

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When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p assed largely without notice. Why do we accept that fathers will be absent? Why do so few men take parental leave in this country? In the last half-century, women have revolutionised the way we work and live. But men's lives have changed remarkably little in that time. Why is that? Is it because men don't want to change? Or is it because, every day in various ways, we tell them they shouldn't?" In this Quarterly Essay, Annabel Crabb deploys political observation, workplace research and her characteristic humour and intelligence to argue that gender equity cannot be achieved until men are as free to leave the workplace (when their lives demand it) as women are to enter it. ...Show more

Petrichor (Visible Ink 2015)

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Established in 1989, Visible Ink was started by students of RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing Program with a clear goal: provide a platform for emerging writers. Now in it’s 27th year, the Visible Ink collective continues to honour the anthology’s heritage and give page space to emerging writers and visual artists from all over Australia. ...Show more

The Canary Press Magazine All Issues

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Limelight September 2019 by Limelight

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Cover story- Tom Stoppard- The Real Thing. We examine the 50-year career of the mercurial playwright, whose dazzling wordplay gave rise to the term 'Stoppardian'. Sydney Theatre Company performs his play The Real Thing this month, featuring a playwright not unlike Stoppard himself, while in November, Sy dney Symphony Orchestra performs Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, his ingenious play for actors and orchestra, written with Andre Previn. Feature- An exploration of Elgar's Enigma Variations, which the composer dedicated "to my friends pictured within". Each initialised variation is a musical sketch of a close friend. But what about the rumoured hidden melody? Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the piece for Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Article- Join us as we enter the unsettling world of Aribert Reimann's 1984 opera, Ghost Sonata, based on Strindberg's evocative, moody play, which Opera Australia presents in Sydney and Melbourne. Interviews- Rising star, 11-year old Melbourne violinist Christian Li, as he prepares to play with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; and Australian composer Gordon Kerry on his new Clarinet Quintet for Omega Ensemble. Reviews- The Australian World Orchestra plays Janacek's Taras Bulba; Opera Australia's world premiere of Whiteley, about the artist Brett Whiteley, with music by Elena Kats-Chernin; Belvoir's new adaptation of Brecht's Life of Galileo starring Colin Friels; and Melbourne Theatre Company's Shakespeare in Love directed by Simon Phillips. What's on- live performance and radio highlights for September 2019. ...Show more

Voiceless Journeys

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Overland 232 - Spring 2018 by Jacinda Woodhead (Editor)

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In addition to some of the sharpest up-and-coming literary and political writers in Australia, Overland 232 features regular writers Alison Croggon, Tony Birch, Mel Campbell and Giovanni Tiso, alongside the winners of the 2018 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize and a selection of the finest poets writing in Australia today. ...Show more