‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution Protests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now being challenged by Iran war

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'A storm every eight days' - country's biggest insurer calls for systemic response An increasing number of severe weather events were now happening in spring and summer, IAG says.

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Hine Toa: A story of bravery The immersive, inspiring and long-awaited memoir by leg…

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Homeless - Joris Voorn Remix

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Australia can be cool! 😎

Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise The most influential book of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement—a…

'Tolerance isn't a virtue, and taking tolerance as a virtue is a way this pretentious world tries to maintain its depraved sense of discipline. Rage is a virtue.' - Lin Yi-Han

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New (old) book! 🤓

Real possum found among plush toy animals in Australian airport gift shop | CNN On shelves crammed with cuddly toy native animals in an Australian airport gift shop, one fluffy possum stood out: Its big brown eyes were moving.

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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

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‘Life is short and it’s a sin to waste your time.’ - Albert Camus

Seahorse! ✨

An event! ✨

'I feel as if my wings were in danger of being clipped. And it worries me also to find that I am a long way off being capable of any emotion as simple as what is called love. It seems limiting and maneating to me.' - Philip Larkin

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Inkflower A gritty YA novel about family secrets, hope and healin…

Another recommendation from one of my kids:

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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient … The World of the Shining Prince, Ivan Morris's widely a…

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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, Paperback, 9780143039495 | Buy online at The Nile Buy The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, Paperback, 9780143039495 online at The Nile. Fast delivery with free 30 Day Returns across Australia.

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Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition Step into a story of life and love in Kyoto's 10th cent…

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‘As regards my own writing, I don’t for a moment say I am likely to be any good. All I say is: “Nothing means anything to me but writing. Therefore that’s the point we start from.” God knows where we shall end.’ - Philip Larkin

'When merely to see her was to love her, he wondered in amazement how he had managed to spend all these months and years without her, and bitterness against the world rose in him anew.' - Murasaki ✨

Landlords Are Enforcing No-Sex Tenancy Clauses Now We spoke to renters who have been targeted with 'no-sex' clauses in their tenancy agreements.

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How Indigenous ideas about non-linear time can help us navigate ecological crises Māori, for instance, do not place the present at the centre; as some researchers put it, ‘there is no centre’.

Read my latest article, in the Conversation:

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Valentine’s Day cards too sugary sweet for you? Return to the 19th-century custom of the spicy ‘vinegar valentine’ Victorians found a way to anonymously tell people they didn’t like exactly how they felt.

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'A full account of all this seems not to have reached me; there would have been just too much to tell. That is a shame, though, because this is just the sort of occasion that may yield fine poetry.' - Murasaki Shikibu

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Faster Than Light (Solo at the Seymour Centre, 2010)

‘And praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt and bends the shape of things that haven’t happened yet.’ - Neil Finn

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