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Naarm / Melbourne, Victoria
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Defamation law means the rape allegations you hear about in the media are the tip of the iceberg @suigenerisjen on #women’s not so #freespeech & gendered violence in Australia @TheAusInstitute @GuardianAus theguardian.com/books/2025/m…
In this adapted extract from What’s the Big Idea? Louise Adler looks at the failure of Australian cultural leaders shying from risk and artistic vision – and letting the tail wag the dog @TheAusInstitute @alicektg
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
With more indie publishers being acquired by multinationals, what does this mean for Aussie authors, booksellers and readers?
Alice Grundy explores this worrying trend in Aus publishing, what’s driving it, & what we lose when we lose our indie publishers shorturl.at/ynPGK
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Today from 9am on @3RRRFM: @Kate_FitzGibbon on Australia’s national crisis of family & domestic violence against women & children; Sean Reynolds on his book Melbourne Ghost Signs; Amanda Laugesen (@RWTHistory) on Australia’s linguistic history in 100 words rrr.org.au/explore/programs/…
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Sydney based connections:
Glebe Books is hosting an 'In conversation' event in November on my new short book, 'Our National Crisis: Violence against Women and Children'.
🗣️ I am thrilled to be in conversation with @LucyTurnbull_AO. Join us on Friday 15th November from 6pm.
🎟️ The event is free but registrations are essential.
👉 Register here to join us: gleebooks.com.au/event/kate-…
Great to see this support coming thru in the UK #FreeJimmyLai
Responding to #PMQs today, & @Keir_Starmer’s call for China to “immediately release” #JimmyLai, Sebastien Lai said:
“I am grateful to hear the Prime Minister call for my father’s immediate release.
My father will be 77 soon, he has spent close to 4 years in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison for peacefully campaigning for democracy in Hong Kong. As you can expect his health has deteriorated by a lot. I would ask our Prime Minister to put word to action, to save my father’s life.”
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Thanks to @crikey_news for publishing an extract from my new @MonashPub short book ‘Our National Crisis: Violence against Women and Children’. Here I detail some of the different forms of abuse experience by family violence victim-survivors.
👉🏼 Read via crikey.com.au/2024/10/10/men…
"Is the Albanese government taking enough action...to keep us from Trump-like developments?” asks @MrSeanKelly
🔗READ MORE: shorturl.at/hojLg
@MrSeanKelly quotes Don Watson’s Quarterly Essay:
“There would be no Trump had Obama made American workers his resounding cause, and made the bankers at least seem to pay a price for their rapaciousness."
🔗Read the essay: shorturl.at/VHCUJ
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Don't miss @Kate_FitzGibbon in Brisbane
🗓️Monday 28 October 2024
⏰ 6.00pm
🎟️ bit.ly/3ZK8xMX
📍 Avid Reader, 193 Boundary Street, West End QLD
She will joined in conversation by Dave Kramer, hosted by Natalie Siegel-Brown.
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"I cannot see the logic of AUKUS at all."
"How we can commit so much money to a really doubtful operation, I don't know."
Don Watson joins After America to discuss political violence, America’s deep divisions & the US-Australia relationship.
#auspol @EmmaShortis @BlackIncBooks
Come and hear all about Royce's brilliant investigation into the oil and gas industry.
Read an excerpt from the book via @crikey_news: crikey.com.au/2024/07/30/aus…
If you're around next Friday, I'll be joining Australia's Biggest Book Club, hosted by @TheAusInstitute to talk about my book Slick and all the wild things I found.
Party starts at 11am. Details and registration below -- bring your friends: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Melbourne International Games Week is back and bigger than ever for its 10th anniversary edition 👾🎮🎲
We're so excited to be involved in another year of this epic celebration of games. Program details in the media release: shorturl.at/BurPO
#MIGW24 #videogames
Amazing to see Bridget Brennan become ABC News Breakfast's new co-host. Bridget is a talented journalist, and we’re so excited about this new chapter!
#BREAKING: Bridget Brennan will be the new co-host of ABC News Breakfast, taking over from Lisa Millar when she farewells the show in late August. ab.co/3SQ3vds
For an on-the-ground examination of how the fossil fuel industry captured Australia, check out 'Slick: Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil' — out tomorrow via @UQPbooks
uqp.com.au/books/slick
Australia’s gas producers succeeded in making their product synonymous with modernity, but now they face being excluded in the transition to a renewable future | @RoyceRk2 #auspol
mnth.ly/jN5OR5J
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Ep115 has fabulous Indigenous authors Victor Steffensen & Isobel Bevis. Shortlisted for @Wilderness_Aus Karajia Awards for Children's Literature. We chat Indigenous Land management, stories in language, accidental authors, amazing illustrators.
Listen here buzzsprout.com/1718602/15471…
ALT On background of 2024 National NAIDOC week logo by Indigenous artist Deb Belyea. Text reads Australian Book Lovers Podcast special - Writer's Room with guest authors Victor Steffensen & Isobel Bevis. Keep the Fire Burning Blak Loud & Proud. Episode 115. Celebrating and supporting Australian authors AustralianBookLovers.com/podcast. Images of ABL logo, authors Victor Steffensen & Isobel Bevis and book covers of The Trees by Victor & Sandra Steffensen and Nedingar: Ancestors by Isobel Bevis & Leanne Zilm.
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#JoseRubénZamora Urgent Appeal filed with UN Special Rapporteur on Torture @DrAliceJEdwards Urgent Appeal, by @caoilfhionnanna & @TatyanaEatwell. @jczamora #ZamoraLibre #FreeZamora
Read more here: doughtystreet.co.uk/news/jos…
Discover Australian poetry excellence at Poetry Month 2024 this August.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/3fuy48zs
@RedRoomPoetry #PoetryMonth
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Thank you @DaveSharma for meeting Sebastien Lai @SupportJimmyLai; from the international legal team for Sebastien & his father, Jimmy Lai, @caoilfhionnanna & @suigenerisjen; & journalist & former prisoner @PeterGreste @4JournoFreedom.
It’s time to #FreeJimmyLai.
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