Buy Now Hardback iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac Delivery in Australia & NZ Kindle Only a few weeks ago I was a stay-at-home mum. What am I doing? But there was no time for second thoughts now. My brain snaps into action and so does my mouth. "Flak jackets, helmets, gas masks - everyone, now!" Zoe Daniel is now the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Washington correspondent, covering the US election. In  Storyteller  she tells of her years based in Bangkok with her husband and young family reporting on nine countries across Southeast Asia, filing copy and stories for TV, radio, online and social media. She was the Africa correspondent from 2005 until 2007 and spent 2009 covering the Khmer Rouge war crimes trials from Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Zoe’s frank and brave memoir, Storyteller, deals with the effects of her work, with its stresses and its constant travel, on her marriage, with the physical and psychological effects of a dan...

Prepublication draft now available: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4lNDAn8sZXnUE9vZE5qN1BKbHM <strong>SPARKS OF THE DIVINE: HIDEOUT IN THE APOCALYPSE Hideout in the Apocalypse is about surveillance and the crushing of Australia’s larrikin culture. In the last two years the Abbott/Turnbull government has prosecuted the greatest assault on freedom on freedom of speech in the nation’s history. The government knew from international research that when it introduced the panopticon, universal surveillance, into Australia it would have a chilling effect on the culture. When people know they are being watched, they behave differently. Dissent is stifled, conformity becomes the norm. This is the so-called chilling effect. Forced to use novelistic techniques to tell a fantastical story, in his latest book Hideout from the Apocalypse veteran reporter John Stapleton confirms the old adage, truth is stranger than fiction. His essential theme: a place which should have been ...

Buy Now iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac Free Delivery Worldwide Delivery in Australia & NZ It always does to ask the simplest of questions: how did we get here? Spooked: The Truth about Intelligence in Australia, shows how, In the wake of the 11th of September 2001 attacks against the Twin Towers, Australia became an extremely active combatant in the war on terror, particularly in the field of legislation. There was a remarkable burst of law making, with the country’s legislative performance eclipsing the relatively paltry performances of the UK, US and Canada, not only in the extent of these efforts in inhibiting the liberties and rights of every Australian, but in their sheer quantity. Dozens of pieces of legislation were passed. Turnbull would soon be following his predecessors, introducing yet more terror laws - a legal and political charade cloaking incompetence and failure with an air of busyness. As security specialist Dr Mark Rix wrote in Spo...

MALCOLM TURNBULL MUST ABANDON HIS MANSION Keep an eye out for the upcoming book Hideout in the Apocalypse, an excoriating snapshot of the surveillance state Australia-style. He is the author of the article published below. http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2016/10/11/malcolm-turnbull-house/ Malcolm Turnbull must abandon his mansion’ Malcolm Turnbull has been told to move into the prime ministerial residences in the interest of national security and cost savings. John Stapleton SHARE TWEET SHARE REDDIT PIN EMAIL COMMENT EXCLUSIVE Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is potentially endangering the lives of his family, staff, neighbours and the Australian Federal Police officers who protect him by choosing to defy tradition and live in his own mansion rather than lodgings provided by the taxpayer. That’s the opinion of top security experts, who told  The New Daily  that the official Prime Minister’s residence...

BUY NOW Free Delivery Worldwide Delivery in Australia & NZ Kindle The book can also be purchased directly from the publisher here: https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/wings-kite-hawk Wings of the Kite-Hawk is a set of linked journeys into the Australian landscape: its past and its present, its people and its half-remembered secrets. In each chapter, Nicolas Rothwell takes a precursor and follows him. His guides include famous explorers from the past – Leichhardt, Sturt, Strehlow and Giles – as well as artists, anthropologists, rodeo riders and even Hell’s Angels. Vivid characters weave in and out of the story, inspiring journeys through different states of heart and mind: love, loss, friendship, fear. This book, re-issued with a new introduction by renowned travel writer Pico Iyer and a new foreword by the author, is unlike any other written about inland Australia. As much fable as memoir, it resonates with strangeness and bitter-sweetness, with al...