Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero; Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
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Category: Anthologies
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
Grand Union - Stories by Zadie Smith
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Category: Anthologies | Series: Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1959, an Antiguan immigrant in north west London lives the last day of his life. A mother looks back on her early forays into matters of the human heart, considering the ways in which desire is always an act of negotiation, destruction, and self-invention. A disgraced cop stands amid th ...Show more
Things a Map Won't Show You: Stories from Australia and Beyond by Susan La Marca; Pam Macintyre (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies
An unforgettable collection of short fiction, poetry and comic art from Australia and beyond . . . A boy who tries to fly, a cricket game in a refugee centre, a government guide to kissing, the perils of hunting goannas, an arranged marriage, an awkward blind date, a girl who stands on her head, an impr ...Show more
PENinsula Literary Journal Issue One by PENinsula Literary Journal (Editor, Introductions and notes by Emily Westmoreland and Celeste Deliyiannis, Prepared for Publication by Emily Westmoreland)
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Category: Anthologies
PENinsula is an annual literary journal celebrating writing and landscape photography from the Mornington Peninsula. From the back beaches to the foreshore, issue one is a blend of nature writing, personal essays and short fiction. Showcasing twelve local writers and seven photographers, PENinsula is th ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
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Category: Anthologies
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...Show more
Watsonia - A Writing Life by Don Watson
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Category: Anthologies
'When you write speeches for other people for a living, any audience is a good audience. I address walls and poultry: I stand on a wheelbarrow and give after-dinner speeches as the moon rises over the fowl yard. I say, Eight and a half generations of you fowls I have known. The chooks treat it as a dive ...Show more
Black Summer: Stories of loss, courage and community from the 2019-2020 bushfires by Rowland Michael
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Category: Anthologies
Told by ABC journalists who were on the ground and broadcasting during our worst ever fire season, spearheaded by Michael Rowland The bushfires that burnt across Australia from June 2019 to February
Granta 153: Second Nature by SIGRID. RAUSING
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Category: Anthologies
Guest-edited by Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, this nature issue touches on every continent in the world and features award-winning writers, expert scientists and activists from the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Maar Bidi: Next Generation Black Writing by Elfie Shiosaki (Editor); Linda Martin (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies
In this beautifully crafted, evocative and poignant anthology of prose and fiction, a diverse group of young black writers are encouraged to find strength in their voices and what is important to them. maar bidi is a journey into what it is to be young, a person of colour and a minority in divergent and ...Show more
Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis by Cameron Muir (Editor); Jennifer Newell (Editor); Kirsten Wehner (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies
Australia — and the world — is changing. On the Great Barrier Reef corals bleach white, across the inland farmers struggle with declining rainfall, birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019–20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and ...Show more
What's it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary? Fascinating answers to perplexing questions: The most informative and entertaining explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald by Felicity Lewis (ed.)
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Category: Anthologies
Ever wondered what happens to us as we die? Or how the Esky became an Aussie cultural icon? Or why we have leap years? Then look no further - and even if you haven't wondered, you'll want to find out. This anthology is a diverse collection of explainers by some of the finest writers from The Age and The ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 79 No 4 by Jonathan Green
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Category: Anthologies
The issue opens with reflective contributions from all of Meanjin's living past editors ... Tara June Winch and Behrouz Boochani offer a conversational meditation on time and the very notion of a future. Bruce Pascoe writes on the strange relationship non-Indigenous Australians have with trees, and wo ...Show more