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The Australian Public Intellectual Network
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| Wednesday, 19th June 2013 |
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Network Review of BooksInto the Wadi
 Michle Drouart, Fremantle: FACP, 2000, 376 Pages, Paperback, $24.95:  THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.Whatever happens to me here, my understanding of it will be incomplete. Jokes, stories, events, decisions — like so many things in this part of the world — remain open-ended, intertwined like the encircled and encircling chambers of the thousand and one tales ... On Friday 15 June, Michèle Drouart was awarded the Premier's Prize in the WA Premier's Book Awards for her work Into the Wadi. She was one of six category Winners in the 2000 Awards from a Shortlist of 24 books in 5 categories. The Presentation Dinner took place in the Alexander Library Building on 15 June 2001, with the Premier of Western Australia, Hon. Geoff Gallop, making the presentations. A rare and illuminating insight into ... click here to request to review. The Real Thing: ACH 24
 Sian Supski ed, Bentley: API Network, 2006, 194 Pages, Paperback, $34.95: THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.The genesis of Young's composition of 'The real thing' is often suggested to have been Young's bitter response to a Coca-Cola advertising campaign, which - one assumes - he felt was aggrandising the product beyond the humble status it deserved as a mere soft drink. At the time 'The real thing' was released, Young was working as a DJ on 3XY, and was participating in station-related events sponsored by both Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola. David Nichols In several ways, tea's route to Sydney reflected the political geometry of imperial enterprise. Firstly, the interests of the East India Company were not far from the officers' trade. Indeed, with Phillip's return to England and the colony under ... click here to request to review. I am lisa, I am not Bipolar
 Lisa Mora, Brisbane: Esstee Media, 2006, 194 Pages, Paperback, $5.95 (electronic version): THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW. What is life really like for an everyday person suffering from Bipolar disorder? Follow Lisa on her journey from her unusual gypsy childhood upbringing that takes her to the furthest reaches of the globe, to her struggles with maintaining consistency in relationships and employment in adulthood. From her diagnosis of Bipolar disorder at age nineteen and the difficulties in dealing with that, to the eventual breakdown of her marriage and the shattering of her idyllic domestic dream. Her loneliness and perceived isolation is the one common thread that runs throughout. In her attempts to feel a part of something, Lisa finds herself in the wrong company again and again as she struggles to ... click here to request to review. Freedom Next Time
 John Pilger, London: Bantam Press, 2006, 356 Pages, Paperback, £17.99: THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.John Pilger is one of the world's pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include Heroes and Hidden Voices, have in the words of Noam Chomsky 'been a beacon of light in often dark times'. In Freedom Next Time he looks at five countries, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place; in each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting. In Afghanistan, Iraq and South Africa there has been the promise of hope, and even an 'official' freedom, but the reality of these divided societies is that they are still waiting for real freedom. In Palestine, the cycle of violence continues with no ... click here to request to review. Kissing Can Be Dangerous
 Criena Fitzgerald, Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Press, 2006, 264 Pages, Paperback, $39.95: THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.Tuberculosis became a notifiable disease in 1902, and throughout history has been a major cause of mortality and morbidity in most communities around the world. ‘It was like a leper’s disease’ was the response of an ex-tuberculosis sufferer when asked to describe his experience of having tuberculosis and the public’s reaction to his illness. In the first half of the twentieth century in Western Australia, the social consequences of tuberculosis were almost as confronting as the disease itself. Until the advent of chemotherapy in 1947, people with the disease were advised to adopt a way of living that would protect those with whom they came in contact. Kissing and ... click here to request to review. The War On Democracy
 Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler, Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Press, 2006, 172 Pages, Paperback, $29.95: THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.If current conservative opinion writers are to be believed, Australian political and cultural life continues to be infiltrated and dominated by plotting left-wing ideologues, ‘Marxists’ and ‘extremists’. While conservatives see themselves as representing the interests of ‘ordinary’ Australians, they see ‘the left’ as politically correct and self-serving elitists, intent on imposing their undemocratic views on the media, schools, universities and other public institutions and cultural practices. The authors of The War on Democracy think otherwise. Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler argue that the real opponents of democracy are conservatives, whose ... click here to request to review. Valuing Fisheries: An Economic Framework
 Tor Hundloe ed, St Lucia: UQP, 2002, 257 Pages, Paperback, $45.00: THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.Humans have been fishing for food and pleasure since time immemorial. Long before the development of powerful commercial fishing vessels, tribal communities sought fish and other marine life for food and ceremonial purposes. Today, there is a significant tourism sector around diving and snorkelling. Commercial and recreational fisheries often compete for the same fish stock. Together these two groups compete with those who wish to promote a 'look but don't take' attitude to fish. And in some cases, traditional indigenous fishers have special demands that can be inconsistent with the needs of other groups. The limited nature of fish stocks can lead to arguments between these different ... click here to request to review. When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain
 Stephen Alomes, Melbourne: Deakin University, 2000, Paperback, $34.95: THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.... a delightful revelation of English attitudes to Australians and vice-versa. The Examiner For many actors, painters, musicians and writers, leaving Australia seemed to be the only path to personal and professional fulfilment. Drawing on the lives of people such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Jill Neville, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Clive James, this book explores the experience of being an expatriate in London in the creative and performing arts. It is also a cultural history that traces shifts in the relationship between Australia and Britain, as the supposed colonial backwater began to develop its own national identity. ... click here to request to review. Race and the Crisis of Humanism
 Kay Anderson, London: Routledge, 2007, 226 Pages, Paperback, $18.95: THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.In Kay Anderson's provocative new account, she argues that British colonial encounters in Australia from the late 1700s with the apparently unimproved condition of the Australian Aborigine, viewed against an understanding of 'humanity' of the time (that is, as characterized by separation from nature), precipitated a crisis in existing ideas of what it meant to be human. As consternation grew not only about their inclination but about their very capacity for improvement, and particularly for cultivation, the Aborigines challenged the basis upon which the unity of humankind had been assumed. The intractable Aborigine came to supply seemingly irrefutable evidence for an essential, permanent and ... click here to request to review. Head and Shin
 Tim Thorne, North Hobart: Walleah Press, 2004, 130 Pages, Paperback, $20.00: THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE TO REVIEW.Head and Shin is Tim Thorne's ninth collection of poetry. In addition, he has edited four anthologies and his poems have appeared in most major Australian literary journals and in fourteen anthologies. Tim established the Tasmanian Poetry Festival and was its Director for seventeen years. He has performed his work throughout Australia and overseas, has worked as a poet in a variety of community contexts, and has also been employed in arts administration, cultural planning, education and visual arts curation. From 1986 to 2003 he wrote a regular column on current affairs for the Hobart Mercury. He has been Managing Editor of Cornford Press since 1989. Tim Thorne lives in ... click here to request to review.
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