Join 702 Book Club for great books as Deborah Cameron discusses books each month with Geordie Williamson who has been writing, teaching and talking about books in Australia and overseas for a decade. You can hear the latest editions here or subscribe to the podcast by putting the following address in your mp3 subscription…
To listen to today’s show (31 March), click here. The interview with Trevor Noah is towards the end, starting at about 2h10m. NB! The programme is only available for the next eight days (from 31 March)
How to manage your anger and avoid heart attack New research shows that angry outbursts increase the risk of heart attack. The University of Sydney study has found the risk of heart attack is more than eight times higher in the two hours after being incredibly angry. Richard Glover spoke with psychologist Dr Bob Montgomery…
With Richard Glover of 702 ABC Sydney on leave, this morning I tuned in to Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne. Like Glover, Epstein is an experienced journalist, and [this morning] he was interviewing Alan Rusbridge, Editor of The Guardian. To listen to the interview, click here.
Edward Abbot | The English and Australian Cookery Book … | Australia’s first colonial cookbook with kangaroo brain, roasted wombat recipes is republished after 150 years PM By Nick Grimm RELATED STORY: Australia’s ‘first cookbook’ goes on show MAP: Australia A colonial-era cookbook featuring recipes like battered kangaroo brains deep fried in emu oil and…
First Contact | SBS TV and NITV | 3 episodes, 18, 19, 20 November First Contact shines a light on the deep divide between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the nation by taking six non-Indigenous people and immersing them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time. To watch the programme on YouTube, clink the…
Alasdair McGregor | A Forger’s Progress: The Life of Francis Greenway | UNSW Press 9781742233789 | A$49.99 | Nov Talented, well trained and confident in his own abilities and worth, Australia’s first government architect was also hot-headed and tactless. Sentenced to death for forgery, then granted a last-minute reprieve, Francis Greenway was transported to New…
Peter Hartcher | The Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institute Paper | Penguin Specials (Australia) 9780143572435 | A$9.99 | Nov The great crises that threaten Australia’s national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring.…
Andrew Tink | Australia 1901 – 2001: A Narrative History | NewSouth Books 9781742234083 | A$34.99 | Nov Andrew Tink’s superb book tells the story of Australia in the twentieth century, from Federation to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. A century marked by the trauma of war and the despair of the depression, balanced by extraordinary achievements…
Susan Greenfield | Mind Change | Random House 9781846044304 | £20 | August 2014 In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are creating a new environment, with vast implications, because…