The Rock: Looking into Australia’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ from the edge of its wild frontier by Aaron Smith

The Rock: Looking into Australia’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ from the edge of its wild frontier by Aaron SmithJournalist Aaron Smith's new memoir holds up a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbing and revealing. The Rock explores the failings of ournation's character, its unresolved past and its uncertain future from thevantage point of its most northerly outpost, Thursday Island. Smith was the last editor, fearless journalist and the paperboy of Australia's most northerly newspaper, the Torres News, a small independent

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But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft

such as the rounding up of Aborigine women for transportation to the chillingly named 'Isle of the Dead' for inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment

and her hope

and inviolable taboos

original observation with deep emotional engagement

and to join together as one community with a precious shared history as old as time

Its not a book about God

Growing Up Queer in Australia assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity

But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all

but agile and energetic

injured and malnourished cats