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CRY FROM THE FRIDGE: Live at Casey Base, Antarctica
CRYOGENIC HEADS
Brass Monkey D121-2 $42.95 CD: $35.95 download from brassmonkey.con.au
Reviewed by Sebastian Gunlig…
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CRY FROM THE FRIDGE: Live at Casey Base, Antarctica
CRYOGENIC HEADS
Brass Monkey D121-2 $42.95 CD: $35.95 download from brassmonkey.con.au
Reviewed by Sebastian Gunlig…
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86 genders too many to get into one’s head
Peter Westmore’s article, “The issue, Bill, is transgender marriage” (News Weekly, August 26, 2017) left me, a woman…
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HOME FRONT TO BATTLEFRONT: An Ohio Teenager in World War II
by Frank Lavin
University of Ohio Press, Athens, Ohio Hardcover: 304 pages Price: AUD$69.99
Reviewed by Jef…
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THE HOLOCAUST: A New History
by Laurence Rees
Viking/Penguin, London Hardcover: 512 pages Price: AUD$55
Reviewed by Bill James
The Holocau…
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Old Ginger Cat
Whatever the books sayshe loves to make eye-contactcurled on our laps.
Purring on our kneesshe keeps her claws retractedas she kneads skin.
Allowed on the bedshe fights t…
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Edmund Rice sex ed I was very impressed by Chris McCormack’s detailed analysis of what Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) (News Weekly, July. 29. 2017.) proposes to do in regard to tr…
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WAY BEYOND SATIRE
by Rowan Dean
Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne Paperback: 281 pages Price: AUD$34.99
Reviewed by Hal G.P. Colebatch
I hav…
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Calder exonerated In an otherwise excellent article (“The prophets of eco-doom: a perfect record of failure”, News Weekly, June 3, 2017), author Hal G.P. Colebatch refers to Nigel Calder …
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The following is an edited version of U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to the Polish people at the Warsaw Uprising Monument in Warsaw, on July 6, 2017.
See also our editorial: Behind D…
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THE BREAK-UP OF AUSTRALIA: The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition
by Keith Windschuttle
Quadrant Boooks, Sydney
Hardcover: 470 pages
Price: AUD$44.95
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PAPER GENDERS: Pulling the mask off the Transgender Phenomenon
Make Waves Publishing, Carlsbad, California Paperback: 130 pages Price: AUD $29.95
GENDER, …
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Climate variables, energy constants Tom King (“Energy sense”, Letters, News Weekly, June 3, 2017) seems to believe that, instead of recycling the carbon dioxide we produce back to the atm…
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SUPERFAST PRIMETIME ULTIMATE NATION: The Relentless Invention of Modern India
by Adam Roberts
Profile Books, London Hardcover: 312 pages Price: AUD$32.99
R…
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THE GREAT CONVERGENCE: Information Technology and the New Globalisation
by Richard Baldwin
Harvard UP, Cambridge, MA Hardcover: 344 pages Price: AUD$64.99
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Renewable energy Albert Said’s letter supporting the development of renewable energy sources is based on a number of widely held misconceptions. He says that “cleaning the atmosphere is …
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THE SECRET COLD WAR: The Official History of ASIO, 1975–1989
by John Blaxland and Rhys Crawley
Allen & Unwin, Sydney Hardcover: 522 pages Price: AUD$49.99
Re…
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Energy sense? Tom King’s defence of coal (News Weekly, Letters, June 3, 2017) makes good sense – apart from advocating carbon dioxide sequestration. Carbon dioxide is an essential part of…
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THE BRITTLE STAR
by Davina Langdale
Sceptre, London Paperback: 320 pages Price: AUD $22.99
Reviewed by Jeffry Babb
The Brittle Star is a q…
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KYOTO SAKURA TANKA by Andrew Lansdown
Rhiza Press, Capalaba, Queensland Hardcover: 144 pages Price: AUD $25.95
Reviewed by Brian Peachey
Kyoto…
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Power prices Why is electricity getting so expensive? Peter Westmore in News Weekly (May 6, 2017) addresses the problem under the heading “Shocking truth about soaring power prices”. He…
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THE LONG ROAD: Australia’s Train, Advise and Assist Missions
Edited by Tom Frame
NewSouth, Sydney Paperback: 416 pages Price: AUD$39.99
Reviewed by Jeffry Babb&#…
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