Being holed up on an outback sheep station for nearly three years has been one of the best experiences of my life. From the spectacular landscape of the Flinders Ranges to the beauty of the people we came to know I will have lasting memories to make me smile - even though at times the life was hard challenging and tempers got ......
The Bungalow began in 1914 as a tin shed in the small colonial outpost of Alice Springs. It was built initially to house Topsy Smith of Arabana descent and her seven children after their Welsh-born father Bill Smith had died. Over the years that followed many more children with Aboriginal mothers and (largely absent) white fathers ......
On a lonely highway in the middle of the night two teenage Aboriginal girls are killed in a crash. Like rag dolls their bodies are thrown from the Toyota Hilux when it rolls at high speed. One suffers massive internal injuries. The other has her ear and scalp torn off. They bleed out in the dirt. A drunk middle-aged white man crawls out ......
‘Hildegard of Bingen was a woman of extraordinary creative expression and this book approaches her wisdom through the gift of poetry which allows us to move into a more intuitive space. It is a book to slow us down that invites us to ponder and calls us to follow Hildegard towards a growing greenness in our lives.’ – ......
In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something about you - to express in some abstract way how you felt about the world life hopes dreams and love. This book is like a mixtape because it is a ......
Composed during Covid-19 these poems reveal the fragility of life and the strength of love in dark times. The poet finds solace in the little things of life: a cup of coffee with a friend a walk by the seashore with her family in the quiet loveliness of the natural environment in the dailiness of living even as death seems around the ......
William 'Bill' Mott came from generations of farmers/graziers who never wanted anything else but to own their own land. Hard work family and the sense of community were pitted against the harsh reality of this ancient land and its climate of drought and flooding rain. Overseas wars had taken many of their own but they had to believe it was ......
Mental Health Social Work provides students and practitioners in social work human services and welfare studies with a thorough understanding of contemporary mental health theory and practice required for beginning practice as a mental health social worker. Testimonials from readers of previous editions are appreciative of the ......
Warning: do not buy this book if all you want is a boring travel guide. Buy it only if you are interested in personal reflections and observations mostly sane but some completely insane history and the odd poem for good measure put together in 2022 in the post Covid lockdown era when I travelled from Port Albert to the tip of Cape York and ......
