Australia Day
By: Stan Grant
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can rea…
Want to Read"Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other."-Stan Grant, Australia Day
"Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other."-Stan Grant, Australia Day
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1. Fight Like a Girl
By: Clementine Ford
3.98
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our m… read more
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"A friend of mine once said to me that feminism helped to figure out a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt."-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they m…"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"-no matter what we do, we'll never succeed in attaining the 'perfect' body or the 'perfect' face. This isn't just because perfection is an unattainable goal; it's because capitalism relies on people …"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
"We know how unsafe the world is for us. We are like cliffs staring down at a raging sea, battered by winds and salt and spray and unable to wrench ourselves away from the supposed inevitability of it…"-Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl
2. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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3. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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- australia
- audiobook
4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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5. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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- audiobook
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6. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All
By: Hannah Ferguson
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more
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7. Women & Children
By: Tony Birch
4.22
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more
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8. Safe Haven
By: Shankari Chandran
4.18
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more
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- audiobook
9. Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
By: Clementine Ford
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons mi… read more
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"Not all men!" isn't just a mating call for the lazy and aggrieved, it's also a diversionary tactic used to shift attention away from the substantial issues of discrimination and oppression that impac…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"Ah yes, the meritocracy. Isn't it amazing how so many of the 'best people for the job' always happen to be white, cis-het, middle-class men? It couldn't be that structural inequality and hierarchal p…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"What I'm suggesting is that your impulse to assign meaning to something as arbitrary and functional as genitalia is born out of a cultural imperative to affix labels where none are necessary, and tha…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
"It doesn't matter how politically progressive your household is when it comes to aspirations outside the home and the limitless capabilites of women; if it's made clear within those four walls that i…"-Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
10. Any Ordinary Day
By: Leigh Sales
4.13
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more
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"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
11. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage
By: Clementine Ford
4.13
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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- audiobook
12. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
By: Julia Gillard
4.28
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more
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13. Eggshell Skull
By: Bri Lee
4.36
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more
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"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull
"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull
"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull
"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull
14. The Visitors
By: Jane Harrison
3.86
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
On a sweltering day, 26 January, 1788, on a bluff high above Sydney Cove, seven Aboriginal men stan… read more
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15. Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music
By: Archie Roach
4.63
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S8QVZR5 A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen… read more
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16. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need
By: Thomas Mayo
4.52
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more
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17. Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra
By: Bruce Pascoe
4.20
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony. From the… read more
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18. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks
By: Wil Anderson
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more
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19. Australia Day
By: Stan Grant
4.16
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can rea… read more
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- biography
- history
- politics
- indigenous
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- australia
- audiobook
"Storytellers work with and against history. In history we find difference and conflict, yet the storyteller must find us in each other."-Stan Grant, Australia Day
20. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
By: Anita Heiss
4.31
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning au… read more
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- history
- indigenous
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"We’ve never been alone, and we have each other. Not everyone gets everything, and we are so lucky for so much. I’m learning my place, my responsibilities."-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
"I love that I’ve been lucky enough to travel to every Australian city and work with some of the best, most forward-thinking individuals, and coach many to extraordinary feats. I love the friendships …"-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
"P.S. I truly love every square inch of Australia. I look forward to when we realise that this country is our giver of life and will survive long after we have passed on. Maybe, then, we will each cho…"-Anita Heiss, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
21. The Dreaming Path: Indigenous Thinking to Change Your Life
By: Paul Callaghan
4.16
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
Tired of going around in circles? The Dreaming Path ensures our life journey is one of fulfilment.… read more
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