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Tenacious lawyer Julie Chen brings her sister Eva on board as a translator in a legal battle with international ramifications. Leading a class action exposing an American tech giant's involvement with the Chinese government's internet firewall, they must confront censorship, surveillance, corporate greed and their own complicated past.

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Drawing on still-classified official documents and over thirty interviews, this book records the preconditions, motivations and dynamics of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) between 2003 and 2017.

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The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period of intense political, policy and strategic transition, which saw a popular Labor Government and its state-led vision for post-war reconstruction toppled by Robert Menzies.

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Around the world, forced migration doubled in the decade leading up to 2019. Over that time, the borders of the European Union became the world's deadliest frontier. In Where the Water Ends, Zoe Holman traces the story of this frontier from the perspective of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, via Greece.

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How does Australia operate in the world? And why? In this closely evidenced, original account, former Australian Army intelligence analyst Clinton Fernandes categorically debunks Australia’s greatest myth: that of its own independence.

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When the Dutch government moved to stop headhunting by the Marind people of New Guinea in 1902 their actions unleashed new epidemics among a population suffering from low fertility. Donovanosis, a sexually transmitted infection for which no medicine was available, affected huge numbers. This compelling book investigates the causes of this epidemic,

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In the optimistic years preceding Federation in 1901, the Melbourne-based Australian Church emerged as a progressive Christian movement to serve a brand-new nation. Bringing together leading scholars, this volume celebrates the church's radicalism, while taking account of debates and obstacles on the path to social reform.

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Now more than ever we need leaders who can be strong yet humble, bold and assertive when it counts but have the capacity to listen and learn, who can motivate and influence, and who can get the best out of those around them. Twenty-five outstanding Australian leaders from diverse worlds share their insights on the essence of inspiring leadership.

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From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict.

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Offers a comprehensive assessment of Australia’s Black Summer fires. Contributors analyse the event from many vantage points and disciplines - historical, climate scientific, ecological, economic, and political, and assess its impacts on human health and wellbeing, on native plants and animals, and on fire management and emergency response.

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Delving into what euthanasia activists, doctors, lawyers, religious leaders and lay people have thought and felt about dying, this book shows that understanding the radical historical shift in Western attitudes to managing dying and suffering helps us better grasp the stakes in today’s contestations over what it means to die well.

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Reveals how bird-people in Australia have gone about their craft across the years. The stories come from wild places - at sea as well as on the land - from dusty archives, from restoration projects, gardens and urban wastelands. They are human stories, but the birds themselves interject and interrupt any self-important anthropocentrism.

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Tells a story of discovery and realisation. One man's ambition to rewrite the history of human culture inspires an exploration of the controversy stirred by Tasmanian Aboriginal history. It brings to life how Australian and British national identities have been fashioned by shame and triumph over the supposed destruction of an entire race.

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The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law. The day of reckoning for liars and thieves in pin-striped suits has arrived.

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