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A Somali girl student, having grown up and living in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia Townsville, witnesses her draughtsman husband being enticed by an Indonesian girl to leave his wife and young child to open an East-African-style restaurant in Aceh, NW Sumatra. Halima, meanwhile, consummates her own love affair with Edward, a middle-aged Indonesian-born educator, and is, preselected by her minor party for a suburban parliamentary seat, which...
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From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era.
Would your younger self believe the news of today? An entire city block blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers spread disease. A Representative elected to the US Congress on a platform that Democrats are secretly harvesting an anti-aging chemical from the blood of abused children. Angry rioters...
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Shine Bright Like a Diamond
I want you to shine so brightly that we can see you from space, I know you can do it.
I'm sharing 32 years in business, 10,432 clients, educated 137,000 people in open speaking events, featured as a guest speaker at 2,832 events, created 432 training programs, and orchestrated 7,436 Diamond opportunities for her clients, invested in 241 projects. Multi Award winner including Entrepreneur of the Year, Ambassador for Australia...
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The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first major naval engagement in history, which was decided without the opposing ships firing a shot at each other. The battle was brought to the opposing ships by the naval air support of the opposing enemy force. It was a tactical victory for the Japanese but a strategic victory for the Allies. The Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin was so concerned at the time of the Battle of the Coral Sea that he warned...
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In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the prime minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, launched a new defense and security strategy for Australia. This strategy reset puts Australia on the path of enhanced defense capabilities. The change represents a serious shift in its policies towards China, and in reworking alliance relationships going forward. "Joint by Design" is focused on Australian policy, but it is about preparing liberal democracies around...
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In 2003 the then Prime Minister of Australia John Howard announced an inquiry into family law and joint custody, otherwise known as shared parenting, Family law was the country's single most controversial area of law. It was also the layperson's most common point of interaction with the legal and judicial system. The Family Court had been a source of individual pain and public controversy since its foundation in 1975. The announcement received front...
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How to be a Professional Healer with the Real Jesus, is a non-fiction book tells the true events of miracles(names removed) happening in a main children's hospital in Perth Western Australia where the parents, doctors and nurses and secretaries allowed me to pray when children were too sick in emergency. As a Christian healer, I was, allowed to pray in a way that no other healer has ever been allowed to pray ever in Australia. After 7 years, I created...
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Once touted as a future prime minister of Australia, former Western Australia premier Brian Burke has had an extraordinary political career. This is the first major biography of this charismatic and influential politician who-even when out of power and disgraced-pulls the political strings in WA and beyond. As premier, Burke was one of the key players behind the mineral boom that became the infamous WA Inc in the 1980s. After a high profile inquiry,...
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A collection of essays on the war in Iraq; including pieces by Jean Chrétien and John Howard, the prime ministers during the war. When it was declared in 2003, the U. S. -led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. While a few of America's partners, like Australia, joined in the war, many, including Canada, refused to take part. However the war in Iraq was viewed at the time, though, it is clear that that war and the war in Afghanistan have...
10) A Bigger Picture
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Candid and compelling, A Bigger Picture is the definitive narrative of Malcolm Turnbull's prime ministership. He describes how he legalised same-sex marriage, established Snowy Hydro 2.0, stood up to Donald Trump and many achievements — remarkable in their pace and significance, and that they were delivered in the teeth of so much opposition. But it's far more than just politics. Turnbull's life has been filled with colourful characters and controversies,...
11) Bare For You
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Not all cowboys ride horses. Jeremy Craig is on the cusp of being named the deputy prime minister of Australia. Which means he's got to play his cards right and stay deep in the closet. Australia is a lot of things, but there's no way the country is ready for a gay prime minister. So far, it's been an easy ruse to maintain. Until he meets Ryan Taylor. Then all bets are off. Ryan is sick of the Brokeback Mountain jokes. For starters, he's an Australian...
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At the time of writing towards the end of March 2013 the Australian media with a uniformity that would have done credit to state-controlled media was telling Australia that Tony Abbott would be the next Prime Minister of Australia. The message was not new. It was the same narrative that Australians had been fed by their newspapers, televisions and radio for the last two years. During those two years while Australian were being told by their media...
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Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation are policy ideas that have spread widely in the 21st century. They are about the notion that because crime hurts, justice should heal. Because injustice causes great pain, it is more important to fix it than punish it. That said, these policies leave a strategically important place for deterrence in crime control, the control of school bullying, business regulation...
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Despite the heat the issue of divorce, separation and the welfare of children had been generating for decades, the Australian Government was slow to address family law reform. While more than a million children were listed with the Child Support Agency, an institution as roundly and profoundly despised as the Family Court itself, politicians were reluctant to move into such an emotionally charged and gendered arena. Finally, with an increasingly large...
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Most of Australia's leaders since Federation believed in God. Some were serious Christians and very few were indifferent towards religion. In this timely and original book, Roy Williams examines the spiritual life of each of our Prime Ministers from Edmund Barton to Julia Gillard. He explores the ways in which - for good and ill - their beliefs (or agnosticism) shaped the history and development of the nation. Featuring extensive interviews with John...
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Kanopy Streaming
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With Australia at war in Vietnam in 1967, suddenly Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared without a trace"”an event unparalleled in the history of western democracy. The nation was in shock and disbelief at the shattering news, hoping for a miracle for the man who famously declared it was "all the way with LBJ". Police led a 'softly softly' investigation and concluded accidental drowning. But at the height of Cold War paranoia, persistent doubts...
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Kanopy Streaming
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Using Robert Menzies' World War II diaries and remarkable 16mm film, Menzies and Churchill at War lifts the lid on a bitter behind the scenes battle between Winston Churchill and the Australian Prime Minister as the fate of Australia hangs in the balance. It follows Menzies to London during the dark months of 1941 as he takes on the British Prime Minister over the strategic direction of the war, telling the story of Menzies' political epiphany from...
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Kanopy Streaming
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Award winning cartoonist and yarn spinner Warren Brown takes us on a surprising journey into the hearts and minds of Australia's Prime Ministers. After months spent foraging through the nation's archives, Brown unearths an array of 10 extraordinary objects with countless secrets to tell - Harold Holt's last days as revealed in the items he kept in his briefcase; hundreds of passionate love letters Joseph Lyons wrote to his wife; John Curtin's Australian...
19) Make it right!
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Kanopy Streaming
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Barunga, in the Northern Territory, hosts an annual festival of Aboriginal sport and culture. In 1988, 200 years after the British flag was raised in Sydney, the festival took on a special meaning. Prime Minister Bob Hawke was invited to attend and the Festival organisers had high expectations of a political outcome. Wenten Rubuntja, Chairman of the Central Land Council, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Chairman of the Northern Land Council, John Ah Kit, Director,...
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This is a story of coal, communism, and the Australian prime minister who went to war against his own during the national miners' strike of 1949. Using rare archival footage and re-creations based on meticulous research, the dramatised documentary takes viewers into the corridors of power to show how Labor Party leader Ben Chifley took on and defeated the growing forces of communism in Australia. The film examines the complex issues that the conflict...
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