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Nov 24, 2024 | 
expatsi.com | Zobia Shazi |Katherine Wilson
Who doesn’t love to hit the road on two wheels? [...]
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
mckellinstitute.org.au | Katherine Wilson |Jo Lampert
Education policy can either worsen or offset social disadvantages. It can bridge or widen gaps, and it can drive or impede social mobility. A body of research is clear that growing disadvantage and declining student outcomes are the consequences of how we resource and invest in our schools.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Katherine Wilson
When Darlene Butler-Jones, a 66-year-old shop steward for Giant, walks into a store, people listen. Butler-Jones is part of a group of grocery store workers assigned by her union — United Food & Commercial Workers Union Local 400 — to explain the organization’s political endorsements to her fellow employees. As she walks through the store, talking to employees at cash registers and counters, Butler-Jones hears their concerns about fair scheduling, retirement and dignity in the workplace.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Stephen Romei |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
A courageous and honest examination of memory, loss and grief from the esteemed Australian writer, whose teenage brother died in a car accident “It is the simplest of crossroads, this crossroads of my family’s life.” So Gideon Haigh describes the intersection in Geelong, Victoria, where his 17-year-old brother Jasper had a fatal car accident in the early hours of August 13, 1987. Jaz was driving fast and ran a red light, according to one of the two passengers in the car.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | James Bradley |Katherine Wilson |Monique Hurley |Maggie Munn
An earworm prompted by a push-button appliance drives the author to distraction – and a Google search for how The Village People are getting on
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Helen Elliott |Stan Grant |James Bradley |Katherine Wilson
The English author’s latest, typically vexing Jackson Brodie adventure is a cosy-crime investigation of a missing painting Started early, took my cat. Reading the new Jackson Brodie adventure – Brodie being Kate Atkinson’s droll, complicated and hot private investigator. Back in bed. It’s zero outside. The bird baths were frozen when the cat and I went out at dawn.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Stan Grant |Katherine Wilson |Maggie Munn
September 2024Essays As the presidential election campaign grows ever more feverish, is the idea of America in terminal decline? There’s a story I love about my late Uncle Cecil. He is on his first and only trip to America, travelling with his wife – my Aunty Laurel – and my parents. Now, they’re people of simple and earthy taste. No trips to the Guggenheim, the Smithsonian or the Lincoln Center. No nights on Broadway. No. What does my uncle want to do, what’s top of his list?
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Katherine Wilson |Caley Fox Shannon |Taylor Nichols
CHICAGO - Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, made sure Maryland delegates could savor the flavor of the Democratic National Convention well after they leave Chicago. “Jamie’s Strong & Sweet Democracy Mustard” was set out on the welcome table for the state’s delegation breakfast Thursday morning and included in arrival swag bags for Maryland delegates.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
meanjin.com.au | Katherine Wilson
Left to her own devices, our bog paddock became a biodiverse wonderland. She hadn’t had her way for nearly two centuries. But by increments she disclosed her secrets and assured us her history—her continuum—was not lost. When my family occupied this land—part of the former Coranderrk, the Aboriginal station where Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung, Bunurong and Taungurung people lived, farmed and famously resisted colonising oppression—we were in a privileged position.
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May 31, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Katherine Wilson |Robert Manne |Laura Tingle |Kate Manne
A rare legal win for an ecologist over a violent confrontation with NSW loggers exposed years of intimidation from corporate forestry representatives and law enforcement In the winter of 2020, 44-year-old forest ecologist Mark Graham parked his HiLux by the side of the road near the tiny northern New South Wales town of Cascade, in sub-tropical Gumbainggir Country, to stop for a pee.
