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Journalist, writing about #books and #arts for ABC RN. She/her. Lives and works on Awabakal land. Views my own etc.

The @theconversationau reports: "Women artists from a non-English-speaking background suffer a triple earnings penalty – from being an artist (and hence as a group earning less than comparable professionals), from their gender, and from their cultural background."

#genderpaygap #arts #australia

https://theconversation.com/female-artists-earn-less-than-men-coming-from-a-diverse-cultural-background-incurs-even-more-of-a-penalty-but-there-is-good-news-too-195646

Female artists earn less than men. Coming from a diverse cultural background incurs even more of a penalty – but there is good news, too

Women artists from a non-English-speaking background suffer a triple earnings penalty. But there is no gender pay gap among remote Indigenous artists.

The Conversation

Motherhood memoir - or cultural criticism - is a literary niche in which I'm particularly invested, so happy to read this Sydney Review of Books take on The Most Important Job in the World? by Gina Rushton:

"Rushton has written a terrific addition to the literature of motherhood, a category that must and should continue to expand – and yet I yearn for writing that attends to the specificities of both care work and creative practice, writing that doesn’t reflexively set them against each other."

#literature #books #bookstodon #motherhood

https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/rushton-most-important-job/

Only Feelings | Sydney Review of Books

In allowing affect and lived experience to recast her journalism Rushton implies an ethical critique of arms-length reporting. She suggests that a clear presentation of the facts may not tell the whole story.

Sydney Review of Books

If you live on $30+ a day, you are part of the richest 15% of the world.

The poorest 50% - 4 billion people - live on less than $6.70 a day

https://ourworldindata.org/global-economic-inequality-introduction
All measures are adjusted for differences in purchasing power.

Global economic inequality: what matters most for your living conditions is not who you are, but where you are

How much does it matter whether or not you are born into a productive, industrialized economy?

Our World in Data

Treat yourself with Patricia Lockwood's entertaining excoriation of John Updike's problematic genius:

"He grows up, in short, but not into a real adult, just into a country club member ...

"When he is in flight you are glad to be alive. When he comes down wrong – which is often – you feel the sickening turn of an ankle, a real nausea."

#books #bookstodon #lrb #longread

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n19/patricia-lockwood/malfunctioning-sex-robot

Patricia Lockwood · Malfunctioning Sex Robot: Updike Redux

When he is in flight you are glad to be alive. When he comes down wrong – which is often – you feel the sickening...

London Review of Books
The Australia Institute’s Essential Reading List - highly recommend! ❤️☕️🔔💪📚🤔 https://australiainstitute.org.au/initiative/the-australia-institute-essential-reading-list/
The Australia Institute Essential Reading List - The Australia Institute

Non-Fiction No Enemies No Friends: Restoring Australia’s Global Relevance by Allan Behm Shortlisted for Australian political book of the year award 2022. The orthodoxy that increased defence spending will deliver increased national security confirms the status quo. But it does not help us to deal with shocks and surprises. How should Australia re-calibrate its national

The Australia Institute

...is a strong one, in my view. I agree with everything Justine Landis-Hanley says in this piece: that 16-year-olds can work and pay tax, go to jail, and I'd add, serve in the armed forces. Extending them the vote would create a more civically minded and politically engaged (and progressive) electoral landscape in Australia.

#auspol

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-isn-t-the-voting-age-16-because-politicians-are-scared-of-young-people-20221129-p5c276.html

Why politicians are too scared to lower the voting age to 16

The next generation of voters don’t have the luxury of political complacency.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Incredible images and footage in this piece about the recent flash-flood in Eugowra that devastated the town and claimed two lives.

#longread #nswfloods #australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-06/how-an-extreme-flash-flood-destroyed-eugowra/101711140

How an extreme flash flood wiped out Eugowra in NSW

When the people of Eugowra woke on November 14 they had no understanding of the "waves of water" that were hurtling towards them. Before long they were running for their lives, rescuing each other and clambering onto rooftops.

ABC News

Up early to catch an express train from #Newcastle to #Sydney for work ... but it arrived 33 minutes late.

I don't mind a slow train as I can work while I travel but there's a larger conversation here about regional development etc.

#publictransport

I love a list - but appreciate how limiting 'best of the year' lists can be when it comes to books, films etc.

But 'under-rated' is a list I can get behind - like this one from Arts Hub, featuring books by Sally Olds, Chloe Hooper and Tracey Lien.

#books #bookstodon

https://www.artshub.com.au/news/features/10-underrated-books-in-2022-2594860/

10 underrated books in 2022

Among the lists of 'best ofs 2022' here is a selection of personally curated underrated books that have perhaps flown under the radar.

ArtsHub Australia

"...the final, damning word on a leader who never seemed to care about the institutions that make governing possible"?

Sean Kelly on Scott Morrison, a politician who takes protocol with a pinch of salt.

#auspol

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/will-scott-morrison-even-care-when-he-is-censured-20221128-p5c1ym.html

Will Scott Morrison even care when he is censured?

The former prime minister repeatedly demonstrated contempt for the very body that will now censure him: the parliament.

The Sydney Morning Herald