Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy’s Son
author: Mark Colvin name: Kim average rating: 4.18 book published: 2016 rating: 5 read at: 2018/09/06 date added: 2018/10/06 shelves: review: Even if you don’t know the name, you will remember the mellifluous soothing voice of the late Mark Colvin – ABC...Bell of the Desert
author: Alan Gold name: Kim average rating: 4.04 book published: 2012 rating: 5 read at: 2018/10/01 date added: 2018/10/05 shelves: review: If Winston Churchill and the other leaders of Western Europe had listened more closely to Gertrude Bell and T.E Lawrence during...Kingdom of the Wicked Book One: Rules
author: Helen Dale name: Kim average rating: 3.80 book published: 2017 rating: 4 read at: 2018/07/01 date added: 2018/10/05 shelves: review: I respect anyone that acknowledges their mistakes, apologises and moves on – Helen Dale (“nee” Helen...Kim
author: Rudyard Kipling name: Kim average rating: 4.17 book published: 1901 rating: 0 read at: 2018/10/04 date added: 2018/10/04 shelves:...
The Politics of Change
As trust in our political leaders continue to decline, writings and commentary decrying the malaise in which our democracy finds itself in is booming, including Facebook-, Murdoch- and ABC-bashing, lamenting populism, trashing Trump-ism and generally blaming all the other ‘ism’s’ except one’s own.
Condemning neoliberalism
Condemning neoliberalism as Richard Denniss does in his recent Quarterly Essay is all well and good, but to change how policy formulation is done in our broken democracy we need to look at the root causes and reform the system, not just change the labels.
In Search of Good Government: Great Expectations & Political Amnesia
author: Laura Tingle name: Kim average rating: 4.38 book published: rating: 5 read at: 2018/07/19 date added: 2018/07/23 shelves: review: Laura Tingle does something few of our political commentators manage: to write with the deep insight of an insider without...Taboo
author: Kim Scott name: Kim average rating: 3.94 book published: 2017 rating: 4 read at: 2018/04/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: This was the first of Kim Scott’s books that I have read. It won’t be the last! Scott is of Aboriginal origins and...Saigon
author: Anthony Grey name: Kim average rating: 4.35 book published: 1982 rating: 5 read at: 2018/02/01 date added: 2018/07/14 shelves: review: Read this after watching Ken Burns’ excellent documentary on the Vietnam War. Although this book is historical fiction,...Get my book!
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