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New Domino Theory
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines China's ultimate goals as an emerging superpower, including the extent of its territorial ambitions. New Domino Theory looks at Australia's place in China's long-term plans and at the threat – if any – that Beijing poses to Australian security, politics and society. Essays include: Red peril: What does China want from Australia? – James Curran Uncommon destiny: How Beijing sees the world – Merriden Varrall Agents and influence: Inside the foreign interference threat – Yun Jiang No daylight: Behind the Labor–Coalition consensus on AUKUS and China PLUS correspondence, The Fix, and more
The Shortest History of Australia
The history of Australia has been written before – but not like this. In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new version of our national story. This is a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultural society with an island mindset; a continent of epic beauty and extreme natural events; a country obsessed by war abroad but blind to its founding war at home; and a thriving nation-state still to realise its political independence. McKenna's wise and humane history reveals the surprising in the familiar, and reframes the past so we can see the present more clearly. 'Remarkable ... a deeply humane account of who we are and how we came to be' —Larissa Behrendt 'A deeply imaginative, beautifully written and individual book' ––Robert Manne 'Original, eloquent and moving – a revelatory journey into the past we thought we knew' ––Tom Griffiths
Hotel Lux
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2024: History Book of the Year 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney 'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which whisper to us all the same' Irish Times Hotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters, the Hotel Lux. Historian Maurice Casey r...
Meanjin Vol 83, No 3
Noongar writer Claire G. Coleman has created an annotated version of the constitution-and it's about to become our democracy bible. Turns out Australia has a king (I know, right) and he's planning a visit: to greet him, Jenny Hocking reflects on racism, power and royal privilege, while Frank Bongiorno marks sixty years since The Lucky Country taunted its way into our vernacular. As ever, Lee Lai's framing illustration is compelling: the Colonial Frontier Massacre Map 1788-1930 is a project we should all know well. Reminding us how much unfinished business awaits us, there's Olivia Nigro's 'Australia in Three Books', Julien Leyre's experimental 'From the midfield', and Shaun Micallef's 'The Y...
Blue Poles
The captivating story behind the iconic Blue Poles - the painter, the process, the patronage, the politics and the national scandal. In 1973, Blue Poles, the iconic painting by America's great abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, was acquired by the Australian government for A$1.4 million. This record-setting price for an artwork sparked a media sensation and controversy both in Australia and the United States. Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the painting that changed a nation details how Jackson Pollock rose to fame, the negotiations that led to the artwork's move to the National Gallery of Australia, and the many successes and turbulent turns in between. This story covers...
Donald Horne
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could change In the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity. His book The Lucky Country was profoundly influential and, without doubt, one of the most significant shots ever fired in Australia's endless culture war. Ryan Cropp's landmark biography positions Horne as an antipodean Orwell, a lively, independent and distinct literary voice 'searching for the temper of the people, accepting it, and moving on from there'. Through the eyes – and unforget...
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