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Baby Boomers beware: a macabre new satire hits close to home
18+ hour, 22+ min ago (67+ words) Rosalie Ham. Allen & Unwin. $34. 99. Martha Ackmann. St Martin's Press. $36. 99. Iain Campbell, Charley Hesse, Phil Gregory. Princeton University Press. $55. Patricia A. O'Brien. Allen & Unwin. $36. 99. Fiona Wright. Ultimo Press. $34. 99. Anna Maynard. Echo. $34. 99. Love books? Us too! For more reads and recommendations, browse our…...
Concrete Captions: Texting Rights Last Days - Thu 19 to Sun 22 Feb - Platform19 Furneaux Street, Forrest,
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (359+ words) The Canberra Times Concrete Captions: Texting Rights shows how texting and social media empower Deaf and disability culture, shift attitudes about burdens, and challenge outdated views. During the pandemic, a renaissance of collective action, mutual aid, and new ways of…...
Readers debate the fine line between hate speech laws and political satire
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1539+ words) The politicians who passed the hate speech law and the police who are enforcing it should hang their heads in shame at their repressive and anti-democratic behaviour ("Police raid Canberra bar over posters", February 20). What an extraordinarily bad law. An…...