The Children's Country

The Children's Country
Author: Stephen Muecke
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786615495

In North-West Australia, between 2009 and 2013, a major Indigenous-environmentalist alliance waged a successful campaign to stop a huge industrial development, a $45 billion liquefied gas plant proposed by Woodside and its partners. The Western Australian government and key Indigenous institutions also pushed hard for this, making the custodians of the Country, the Goolarabooloo, an embattled minority. This experimental ethnography documents the Goolarabooloo’s knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them. Written in a fictocritical style, it introduces a new ‘multirealist’ kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence, and how they organised to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.

People of the Outside

People of the Outside
Author: Lee Morgan
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2024-05-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1803415398

Taste the Forbidden History. Witchcraft owned your skin before you ever knew you did. You slipped into it down the drain-pipe of a birth cord, and it had you sewn into the flesh-purse of your baby hide. Many tales have come down to us over the past few hundred years, stories of outsiders reflected in a mirror darkly. The People of the Outside is a different sort of history, some of the deepest buried sediment to be found in a cave and sifted for traces of the past. It is a history of the dust. It pulls apart binaries and invites us to use our hybrid brains - every tool, from science to intuition - to untangle the elf-locks that endure as a clever-cord, an elongated witch's ball, one that reaches all the way back to our own almost extinct ancestors. Welcome to the witchcraft of the dispossessed, from the almost until recently forgotten forebears to eating people, and an unflinching examination of what it means to be a person of the outside.

Muwinina Country

Muwinina Country
Author: Luana Towney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-09
Genre: Aboriginal Tasmanians
ISBN: 9780646844756

A book about the First Nations people of nipaluna [Hobart]. The story is a child friendly history lesson about first contact in nipaluna in both palawa kani and English

God in the Landscape

God in the Landscape
Author: Kerrie Handasyde
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1350181501

This book shows how creative writing gives voice to the drama and nuance of religious experience in a way that is rarely captured by sermons, reports, and the minutes of church meetings. The author explores the history of religious Dissent and Evangelicalism in Australia through a variety of literary responses to landscape, from both men and women, lay and ordained. The book explores transnational themes, along with themes of migration and travel across the Australian continent. The author gives insight into the literature of Protestant Dissent, concerned as it is with travel, belonging, and the intersection of national and religious identity. Much of the writing is situated on the road: a soldier returning from the Great War, a child on a lone adventure, a night-time journey through urban slums; all of these are in some way dependent on the theme of “walking with Jesus” as the Holy Land travelogues make explicit. God in the Landscape draws the links between landscape, literature, and spirituality with imagination and insight and is an important contribution to the historical study of religion and the environment.

The Good Life

The Good Life
Author: Hannah Moloney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Conservation of natural resources
ISBN: 9781922419385

From growing your own tea, to building a DIY water tank, making yoghurt to co-housing, with The Good Life you’ll gain the skills, self-reliance and confidence needed to engage meaningfully with your space, your food and your community. Whether you have a half-acre, a backyard, a tiny balcony or no balcony at all, there are tips and tricks to suit everyone.

Break Your Chains: The Freedom Finders

Break Your Chains: The Freedom Finders
Author: Emily Conolan
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-03-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1760635804

To find freedom, you must leave behind everything you've ever known. It is 1825. You and Ma have survived on the streets of London ever since the soldiers took Da away and you fled Ireland. Now, with Ma gone too, you find yourself facing life-and-death choices at every turn. Can you carry a secret treasure across the ocean and finally be reunited with Da? You'll be asked to betray your friends, survive storms at sea and attacks by bushrangers, and trust thieves. At every turn, the choice is yours. How far will you go for freedom?

Brand Antarctica

Brand Antarctica
Author: Hanne Elliot Fonss Nielsen
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 204
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1496238249