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First Nations Australian advocate Thomas Mayo and journalist Kerry O’Brien believe that Australia needs an Indigenous voice to parliament. They co-wrote this pocket-sized explainer – illustrated by cartoonist Cathy Wilcox – to answer all the questions you or the people around you may have in the lead-up to the referendum, in an attempt to counter what they believe will be the biggest threat to a yes vote: confusion and misinformation.
A detailed, authoritative history of our media empires and diversity for anyone who cares about the state of media and the figures and politics which have shaped it. –Kirsty is unhappy with her dead-end job and furiously longing for her high-school boyfriend Max. In swoops TV producer Mara with an irresistible and bonkers proposition: Kirsty will undergo extreme plastic surgery that will leave her unrecognisable, so she can attempt to woo back an unsuspecting Max, all in the name of reality TV.
The Shot is unabashedly gaga and compellingly nasty, in a way I found oddly retro: more reminiscent of Fay Weldon or Jilly Cooper than anything contemporary. Definitely one for the poolside chair.In 2007, Cynthia Dearborn was told she would be solely responsible for the care of her father, who had vascular dementia. She uprooted from Sydney to Seattle, leaving her partner and job behind to launch headfirst into what became a year of full-time caregiving.
In this warts-and-all memoir, Dearborn deftly weaves between her time as a first-time caregiver as well as her tumultuous upbringing and her experience with a flawed medical system. “I realised I had to become not just my father’s caregiver,”
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