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NIB Awards 2024
Inspiring Change
The Cubbies
Cathy Goes to Canberra
The AI (Re)volution
Race Mathews
Personal Politics
NIB Awards 2024
No One Knows Their Destiny

The Eckfeld Records: Inside the Dunera Story

Tonia Eckfeld

A moving portrait of two Dunera Boys, from Kristallnacht in Vienna to VE Day in Melbourne, that complicates the traditional story of the Dunera.

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The Cubbies

The Battle for Australia's First Adventure Playground

Joan Healey

This is the rollicking tale of Australia’s first true adventure playground, when children were allowed to use a patch of public land as their own backyard, to play in freely as they wished, not as adults directed them.

The Cubbies
Housing
The great Australian right
Kevin Bell
Reimagines ‘the great Australian dream’ of housing as ‘the great Australian right’ to housing

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Cathy Goes to Canberra

Doing Politics Differently (Revised and Updated)

Cathy McGowan

A manifesto for an alternative community-based politics

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The AI (Re)volution

By Associate Professor Jessica Russ-Smith and Professor Michelle D. Lazarus

How can we walk along the path already led by First Nations communities to generate technology that is supportive of, and not at odds with, all life?

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Race Mathews

A Life in Politics

Iola Mathews

‘Race Mathews reminds us of the very best in a politician and the possibilities of progressive politics. This marvellous biography will renew your faith in both.’
Jenny Hocking AM, Gough Whitlam’s award-winning biographer

Race Mathews
Our National Crisis
Violence Against Women and Children
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Kate Fitz-Gibbon explains why violence against women and children is not a series of isolated incidents but a pervasive, systemic issue.

Our National Crisis
Retelling Australia’s Water Story
Quentin Grafton
Quentin Grafton explains how, from 1788 onwards, those in power have treated fresh water as a resource to be exploited rather than cared for.
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Personal Politics

Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia

Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, Robert Reynolds

‘An interesting analysis of some major political campaigns that offers ways of understanding how they worked or didn’t work. We can learn from this for future strategies.’
Eva Cox

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