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It's Not About Me
When Sally Hetherington OAM was 25, she packed up all her belongings and bought a one-way ticket to Cambodia, determined to make a difference through voluntourism. She had been told that her role was crucial to sustainable development, however what she saw instead was disempowered staff, children with attachment issues and an unhealthy "white saviour" syndrome in visitors. Sally knew she had to make a big change.Sally started at the core - the local community, and developed a centre with a team of Cambodians with the end goal of making herself redundant. Sticking to her belief of local empowerment in a country pre-dispositioned towards voluntourists was tough. Despite the countless obstacles...
It's Not About Me
When Sally Hetherington was 25, she took a career break and moved to Cambodia, intending to work there for 15 months at a day centre for former street children. It was while she was in her position as Volunteer Coordinator, that she realized she was not helping the future of Cambodians. She witnessed disempowered staff, children with detachment issues, and an unhealthy 'white savour' syndrome. In 2012, Sally was introduced to Human and Hope Association, an evening English school with volunteer Khmer staff, and sometimes foreigners, teaching English and Morality to village kids and teenagers. Amongst the murky green walls of the pagoda-based school, Sally saw hope. And so, Sally started working in the role of HHA's Operations Manager. From day one of working at HHA, ensuring the sustainable longevity of the organization was at the forefront of Sally's mind. Sally had learnt that for organisations to be sustainable, they needed to be run by local staff. And for local staff to run organisations, they needed to be empowered.
Pride & Prejudice & Puzzles
Enter the world of Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion with this beautifully realized puzzle collection that transports you to Jane Austen's England--a land of polite intrigue and conjugal contrivance. Permit yourself the indulgence of an interval of recreation and amusement to make your acquaintance with the riddles and conundrums contained within; for you are sure to receive no inconsiderable pleasure from the puzzling over and resolving of them. Your quest for an amiable distraction will be over, leaving your curiosity entirely satisfied. Puzzles there are plenty, clues there are many, and the pages are handsomely decorated with fine engravings entirely suited to the subject matter. "Really, Mr. Collins," cried Elizabeth with some warmth, "you puzzle me exceedingly. . ."--Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Australia's Secret War
Hal Colebatch's new book, AUSTRALIA'S SECRET WAR, tells the shocking, true, but until now largely suppressed and hidden story of the war waged from 1939 to 1945 by a number of key Australian trade unions against their own society and against the men and women of their own country's fighting forces at the time of its gravest peril. His conclusions are based on a broad range of sources, from letters and first-person interviews between the author and ex-servicemen to official and unofficial documents from the archives of World War II. Between 1939 and 1945 virtually every major Australian warship, including at different times its entire force of cruisers, was targeted by strikes, go-slows and sabotage. Australian soldiers operating in New Guinea and the Pacific Islands went without food, radio equipment and munitions, and Australian warships sailed to and from combat zones without ammunition, because of strikes at home. Planned rescue missions for Australian prisoners-of-war in Borneo were abandoned because wharf strikes left rescuers without heavy weapons. Officers had to restrain Australian and American troops from killing striking trade unionists.
My Place
Looking at the views and experiences of three generations of indigenous Australians, this autobiography unearths political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture. Sally Morgan traveled to her grandmother's birthplace, starting a search for information about her family. She uncovers that she is not white but aborigine—information that was kept a secret because of the stigma of society. This moving account is a classic of Australian literature that finally frees the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.
Beating France to Botany Bay
The contest between Arthur Phillip and Jean-Francois Laperouse to get to Botany Bay first and to claim rights to sovereignty of either Britain or France over the Australian continent
The White Australia Policy
Race and shame in the Australian history wars. Many historians today argue that its immigration policy was once so shamefully racist that Australia was in danger of becoming an international pariah, like South Africa under apartheid. This book shows these claims are so exaggerated they lack all credibility. Australia is not, and never has been, the racist country its academic historians have condemned.
Convincing Ground
"Convincing Ground" pulses with love of country. In this powerful, lyrical and passionate new work Bruce Pascoe asks us to fully acknowledge our past and the way those actions continue to influence our nation today, both physically and intellectually. The book resonates with ongoing debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. Pascoe draws on the past through a critical examination of major historical works and witness accounts and finds uncanny parallels between the techniques and language used there to today's national political stage. He has written the book for all Australians, as an antidote to the great Australian inability to deal respectfully with the nation's constructed Indigenous past. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, but believes we can bring in our soul from the fog of delusion. Pascoe proposes a way forward, beyond shady intellectual argument and immature nationalism, with our strengths enhanced and our weaknesses acknowledged and addressed.
The Persecution of George Pell
contemporary history, politics and law
