Labelling visionaries like Singer radical is trying to escape their scope and belittle their argument. In a time of drastic danger, we need people Peter Singer. How many more years are we going to cope with losing land the size of Scotland every bushfire season? There should be radical changes in our society. With the volunteer fire service members perishing fighting raging infernos, could they cope with again in another bushfire season? That is just in Australia, throughout the world, there will unfathomable catastrophic weather events due to a changing climate. Australia is really at the forefront of the effects of climate change, we really should be leading from the front.
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Richard Flanagan - Toxic / Christos Tsiolkas - Damascus
Massive figures in Australian literature.
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I am just into the first few chapters of this book and it's already evident how detailed Magnusson's understanding of Scottish h...
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One of the very great myths of Culloden and the Scottish plight was the fact they were outgunned. This is not the case, as they had mor...
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What is clearly evident and comprehensible in Flanagan's work is this ability to capture real larrikin Australian-isms and the over...
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