Mar 27, 2024
author: Jane Harrison name: Kim average rating: 3.93 book published: 2021 rating: 5 read at: 2024/03/27 date added: 2024/03/27 shelves: review: Beautiful, poignant, devastating The elders of Gadigal Country meets to decided to welcome or repel the mobs arriving on...
Mar 20, 2024
author: Jill Valentine name: Kim average rating: 4.33 book published: rating: 3 read at: 2024/03/20 date added: 2024/03/20 shelves: review: A story rarely told from an insightful authorA glowing review in the Financial Review made me buy it, as there are not many...
Mar 5, 2024
Meta’s Facebook has declared they’ll stop paying Australian media outlets for content when current agreements expire. It’s sparked the ire of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and consternation within the Government. Kim Wingerei asks what may happen next. The announcement...
Mar 4, 2024
Is Qantas jacking up fares to pay for a time-limited promotion? That is illegal under the Consumer & Competition Act administered by the ACCC. What’s the scam? When a Jetstar flight attendant tells a customer to pay $5 for a pen to fill out a landing card, parent...
Feb 28, 2024
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources is investigating if Empire Energy has been given Research & Development grants in preparation for fracking in the Beetaloo Basin. This is contrary to the R&D program’s rules, Kim Wingerei reports. The R&D...
Feb 25, 2024
author: Ari Gautier name: Kim average rating: 4.11 book published: rating: 3 read at: 2024/02/25 date added: 2024/02/25 shelves: review: Lovely writing, confusing storyTempted by the many glowing reviews, I set out on what was a strange reading journey. Some beautiful...
Feb 21, 2024
author: Angela Saini name: Kim average rating: 4.11 book published: 2023 rating: 5 read at: 2024/02/21 date added: 2024/02/21 shelves: review: The long and convoluted history of the patriarchyMany interesting insights into different cultures and the history of why and...
Feb 17, 2024
Julian Assange’s case to be allowed an appeal of his extradition to the US is coming up in the High Court of Justice in London next week. We requested permission to attend via the court’s broadcast link but were refused. What’s the scam? Should Assange fail in his...
Feb 10, 2024
The by-now mythical figure of $368 billion for the AUKUS submarine mirage is creating a frenzy. So far, we’ve seen some of those billions go to shipyards in the US and the UK, but now Queensland’s Banana Shire wants their own slice of the action. What’s the scam? The...
Feb 9, 2024
author: Upton Sinclair name: Kim average rating: 5.00 book published: 1962 rating: 5 read at: 2024/02/09 date added: 2024/02/09 shelves: review: Fascinating insights into an extraordinary manI generally prefer biographies to autobiographies, the latter risk being self...