Jo Case
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Professional book nerd (writer, editor, critic - former bookseller, publisher). Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas, @ConversationEDU. Opinions mine. #ActuallyAutistic
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Asher Wolf It's insane that Centrelink assesses household income, but ATO taxes individual income. The very worst of both worlds.
📚 The End of the Morning – Charmian Clift, edited by Nadia Wheatley (NewSouth Publishing)
As Paul Genoni (@CurtinUni) writes, this novel is Charmian Clift’s most successful piece of fiction, but it is only a piece and one that leaves two matters unresolved. theconversation.com/the-end-of-the…
“I saw a Twitter prompt asking people what movie makes for the best test of someone’s media literacy. The most popular responses were ‘Fight Club’ and ‘The Matrix,’ but my answer is ‘Election.’” — Daniel Joyaux wants justice for Tracey Flick
rogerebert.com/features/elect…
autistic excellence alert: i spoke to 🌻 c h l o é h a y d e n 🌻 about sensory accommodations on set, growing up fangirl in australia, enjoying whales and more. it’s in The Big Issue Australia out today!
'The individual who attacked me has never been found. Around the time of the attack I was told by Ballarat police detectives that I probably won’t have closure...'
indigenousx.com.au/enough-is-enou…
#EnoughIsEnough
Gorgeous review by Edwina Preston of Nova Weetman's memoir of losing her playwright partner to cancer during Covid lockdowns. Like me, she responded to both its love story & its 'pure nostalgic joy', including the 90s bohemia. The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand UQPBooks
theconversation.com/nova-weetmans-…
Counter-narratives from the colonial archive: Tony Birch on the writing of Kim Scott Black Inc. theconversation.com/counter-narrat… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
In The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand, here's me on how foreign policy might affect Biden’s chances - how Gaza is catastrophically undermining the deeply personal image of a compassionate, generous man that he has so carefully cultivated, and why those perceptions matter.
theconversation.com/how-will-us-fo…
Banned Books is a new short series on#TheBookShow ABC Radio National and it starts today. It looks at why book bans are so popular, starting in America where books about race and racism are being taken off school and public library shelves. abc.net.au/listen/program…