The Friend of Australia
Author : Thomas J. Maslen
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Australia
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Author : Thomas J. Maslen
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Australia
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Author : Behrouz Boochani
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1487006845
Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text message, this work represents the harrowing experience of stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. In 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of Australia. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait of five years of incarceration and exile. Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, No Friend but the Mountains is an extraordinary account — one that is disturbingly representative of the experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world. “Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.” — From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize–winning author Richard Flanagan
Author : Thomas J. Maslen
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781341010101
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Author : Emma Shortis
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2021-08-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781743797839
Why it's time for Australia to rethink its broken relationship with the world's greatest superpower: America.
Author : Allan Behm
Publisher : Upswell
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1743822278
Is increased defence spending all that Australia needs to ensure its national security? How well placed are we to deal with global shocks and surprises? How should Australia recalibrate its national security settings to deal with global disruption? Drawing on thirty years of experience as a senior government adviser on foreign policy, Allan Behm explores the thinking behind Australia’s security approach and how it’s been shaped by Australia’s cultural and historical experiences. He argues that our mindset is built around pathologies: racism, misogyny, isolation, insecurity, a brashness that masks a deep lack of self-confidence, and the perverse effects of the cultural cringe. No Enemies No Friends doesn’t just show why Australia has become so good at getting things so wrong. Rather, Behm offers practical policy ideas, imbued with optimism, arguing we have every capability to improve. We need to maintain a credible defence force and invest in diplomacy to reduce our dependence on military force and defence alliances. Forward-looking, this is a meditation on how to approach international affairs with sure-footedness in a less predictable world. This is crucial for maintaining Australia’s long-term security and establishing the nation’s confidence to become a significant international actor.
Author : Allen Francis Gardiner
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 1830
Category :
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 2020-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780371655047
Author : Donald Friend
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Artists
ISBN :
Donald Friend's legendary years in Bali in the 1960s and 1970s and his subsequent final decade in Australia are revealed in detail in this fourth and final volume of The Diaries of Donald Friend. In Bali he lives luxuriously, like a lorda even keeping his own gamelan orchestraa and becomes an international celebrity artist. He welcomes guests such as Mick Jagger and the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, entertains numerous other visitors who want to buy his paintings and drawings, and socialises freely with friends, including many other artists. He engages in significant building activity and property development while also producing superb illustrated manuscripts and books. And despite increasing ill-health, Friend continues to revel in his life's drama and creativity, remaining an eloquent, often charming and sometimes irascible companion. Including over 60 drawings from his diaries, many of them in colour, this volume confirms Friend's quicksilver creative brilliance and extraordinary insight. He is perhaps Australia's most important twentieth-century diarist.
Author : Australia
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 1839
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Author : Drew Hunter
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 143355822X
God made you for friendship. Friendship is one of the deepest pleasures of life. But in our busy, fast-paced, mobile world, we've lost this rich view of friendship and instead settled for shallow acquaintances based on little more than similar tastes or shared interests. Helping us recapture a vision of true friendship, pastor Drew Hunter explores God's design for friendship and what it really looks like in practice—giving us practical advice to cultivate the kinds of true friendships that lead to true and life-giving joy.