Henry Reynolds

This black and teal comic uncovers the mystery behind an unnamed mp3 file that was anonymously uploaded to the internet and is just 3 hours of an uninterrupted monotonous hum. The file, renamed to Sexcoven, sparked mass downloads by teenagers and was said to cause hallucinations and erratic behavior. Told as an visual investigative journalism piece from the perspective of an interviewer, artist Jillian Tamaki explores the aftermath of Sexcoven's rise to popularity and the community of people that moved to Joshua Tree to continue working on the project. -- Grace Li

Inspired by the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and its statement that sovereignty ‘has never been ceded or extinguished’, influential historian Henry Reynolds revisits the very premise of the settlement of Australia and challenges us to do the same. What if the sovereignty of Australia’s First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that ‘peaceful settlement’ was a fiction? Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from under legal and historical assumptions in a book that’s about the present as much as the past. Truth-Telling shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.

Would the sordid past haunt her forever? Caroline had been abandoned as a child, but when a house was left to her in her father's will, she went to north Queensland to claim her inheritance. She didn't even know she had a past, let alone a questionable one. But Kiall Stirling knew otherwise. In his eyes, Caroline had been tarred with the same brush as her mother, whose only crime it seemed, was in loving a man...

"'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a threeyear conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had, ostensibly, nothing to do with Australia. Coinciding with Federation, the war kickstarted Australia's commitment to fighting in Britain's wars overseas, and forged a national identity around it. By 1902, when the Boer War ended, a mythology about our colonial soldiers had already been crafted, and a dangerous precedent established. This is Henry Reynolds at his searing best, as he shows how the Boer War left a dark and dangerous legacy, demonstrating how those beliefs have propelled us into too many unnecessary wars - without ever counting the cost." --Publisher description.