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msn.com | Steph Harmon |Michael Sun |Alyx Gorman |Sian Cain |Beejay Silcox |Fiona Wright | +3 more
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theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Michael Sun |Alyx Gorman |Sian Cain |Beejay Silcox |Fiona Wright | +3 more
Salvage by Jennifer MillsScience fiction, Pan Macmillan, $34.99What does it mean to build a new world from the wreckage of a broken one? This question lies at the heart of Jennifer Mills’ mesmerising new novel, Salvage, which tracks the fortunes of two estranged sisters: gruff, defensive Jude and spectral Celeste. This is a work of speculative fiction, set in a near-future ravaged by war and climate crisis. To survive the chaos, Jude is convinced she needs to shed her past and avoid attachments.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
inkl.com | Catriona Menzies-Pike |Paddy Manning
At 2.30pm AEDT today the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will inform the country whether it is holding the cash rate at 4.35%, cutting it, or — you never know — raising it. The Australian Financial Review reminds us the rate sits at a 13-year high having been raised 13 times since May 2002, “marking the fastest tightening cycle in a generation”.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
inkl.com | Daanyal Saeed |Bernard Keane |Ben Eltham |Catriona Menzies-Pike
Birenbaum, who attended the cafe wearing a cap with the Star of David on it, what appeared to be a Star of David pendant, and a pair of thick wraparound sunglasses, strongly denied the cafe’s version of events that were subsequently posted to social media, as well as the suggestion that a recording was taken using video glasses.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
msn.com | Beejay Silcox |Dee Jefferson |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Joseph Cummins |Imogen Dewey |Emma Joyce
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
msn.com | Beejay Silcox |Dee Jefferson |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Joseph Cummins |Imogen Dewey |Emma Joyce
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Beejay Silcox |Dee Jefferson |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Joseph Cummins |Imogen Dewey |Emma Joyce
Gutsy Girls by Josie McSkimmingBiography, UQP, $34.99Josie McSkimming has raided her big sister’s personal diaries to tell the intimate inside story of Dorothy Porter, arguably the most electrifying Australian poet of her generation, who died in 2008 aged 54.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Catriona Menzies-Pike
For decades now, Helen Garner has established herself as one of Australia’s most tenacious literary observers of men and boys. They fascinate her. And now she’s 80, and her youngest grandson, Amby, is playing footy. The Season is written from the sidelines as the Colts U16s train and play their way through one drizzly Melbourne winter. It is, Garner writes, ‘‘a record of a season we are spending together before he turns into a man and I die”, a reckoning with the elements and cycles of life.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
msn.com | Catriona Menzies-Pike
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Catriona Menzies-Pike
When she’s not gazing up into the night sky, the teen narrator of Inga Simpson’s terrific new dystopian novel, The Thinning, spends a great deal of time looking anxiously at the bright orange watch her mother has strapped to her wrist. Fin Kelvin is her name, and like the reader, she doesn’t know whether she’s living at the end of the world or on the cusp of something new. Fin and her family have had to adapt to the demands of a rapidly changing world, one shaped by relentless resource extraction.
