New Non-Fiction (May 2014)
- A love letter to the city – Stephen Powers
- Baby and a backpack: an extraordinary tale of courage, hope, determination and love – Jane Cornelius
- Community: salad recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen – Hetty McKinnon
- Diary of a foreign minister – Bob Carr
- Dirty secrets: our ASIO files – Meredith Burgman (Ed.)
- Everyday sexism – Laura Bates
- Fashionable Selby – Todd Selby
- Gandolfini: the real life of the man who made Tony Soprano – Dan Bischoff
- Gazing at the stars: memories of a child survivor – Eva Slonim
- Geek sublime: writing fiction, coding software – Vikram Chandra
- Melbourne – Tess Lea
- Noise in my head: voices from the ugly Australian underground – Jimi Kritzler
- Outside the box: interviews with contemporary cartoonists – Hillary L Chute (Ed.)
- Sh*t Asian mothers say – Benjamin and Michelle Law
- The boy who was raised as a dog: and other stories from a child psychiatrist’s notebook: what traumatized children can teach us about loss, love and healing – Bruce D. Perry
- The fair trade scandal: marketing poverty to benefit the rich – Ndongo S. Sylla
- The forest feast: simple vegetarian recipes from my cabin in the woods – Erin Gleeson
- The Moth – Catherine Burns (Ed.)
- The virtues of the table: how to eat and drink – Julian Baggini
- The Wes Anderson collection – Matt Zoller Seitz
- Universal hunks: a pictorial history of muscular men from around the world, 1895-1975 – David Chapman
- Vintage girls – Nadia Barbaro
- Who owns the future? – Jaron Lanier
- Words will break cement: the passion of Pussy Riot – Masha Gessen
- Zizek’s jokes: (did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) – Slavoj Zizek
![UMSU will be closed today, but we won't be celebrating anything.
Statement from @umsuindigenous:
TW/CW: mentions of Indigenous Death, Stolen Generations, Racism and Australia Day
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"Leading up to January 26, we see the stores start to fill with all sorts of unnecessarily branded Australian merchandise. Thongs, bikinis, plastic flags, cups, BBQ accessories are all things we frantically try to avert our eyes from, while in our local shopping centres.
It’s a cruel reminder that the day is almost here.
Invasion Day marks a pain that will never really leave us, it is a reminder of the slaughters that have been deliberately left out of the pages of history books. It is a reminder to the people that will never know where they came from because their grandparents and ancestors were stolen from the arms of their parents. It is a reminder that the nation that we are now citizens of refuses to acknowledge or repent for the racialised actions of its past and present.
In a nation that insists it is built upon ideals of mateship and diversity, it becomes increasingly clear that those notions are only bestowed upon the ‘good Australian’. The one that believes in the stories of the underdog and plight of the convict. Those that celebrate their ancestors coming to a strange new land in search of wealth and opportunity.
I am not a ‘good Australian’, nor do I strive to be one. In order to fulfil this stereotype, you must turn a blind eye to violence and injustice and hold an unquestionable belief in the goodwill of the government. You are an active participant in ‘fun-loving Aussie racism’..."
Read the full statement on our Facebook page.
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