The small rural Queensland town of Lawson is still reeling from the arrival of the 1990s and modernity. Surfie teacher Lawrence Lalor is condemned there to servitude y the Catholic Education League. From his veranda and the pub, he is quick to learn that while Lawson is just another 'dead-kangaroo-on-the-side-of-the-road' country town, with its streets named after saints, beneath its simple surface it is a town of depth and deception.Drunken mistakes, accidental friendships and the ...

Councillor when he seizes an opportunity to become a political figure himself. One act of treachery propels him up the ladder and into the murky world of Labor Party manoeuvrings as Kevin 07 looks like becoming Australia’s next Prime Minister. A shocking tragedy and stroke of luck on Lawrence’s part puts a high stakes political win within his grasp, but at what cost to his integrity, family and ultimately his soul? A fitting final instalment for Graham Perrett’s compellingly flawed charact...

Is there ever a good time to confess to adultery? Lawrence Lalor, Gold Coast surfie and small town teacher has wandered through life, drifting and shifting with the wind. Sidestepping a blackmailing Southern Belle he rebels against life in a Philadelphia dead-end job and drags his beautiful wife back to the inner city hills of Brisbane.  Why save up for the dream Australian home when you can steal one? Death and deceit are everywhere when Lawrenc...

In the small rural Queensland town of Lawson, where the people are still reeling from the arrival of the 1990s and modernity, surfie teacher Lawrence Lalor is condemned to servitude by the Catholic Education League. From his veranda and the pub, he quickly learns the secrets of life in the bush. While Lawson is just another dead- kangaroo-on-the-side- of-the-road country town with its streets named after saints, Lawrence is quick to learn that beneath its simple surface, it is a town of depth...

Wayne Long is a proud Murri man, born in St George on the Balonne River, but he is also a child of the Middle Kingdom – his grandfather, Old Billy Long, being part of the Chinese diaspora.Wayne’s story is interwoven with the historical, political and social events that have impacted on inter-racial relations in Australia for more than two hundred years, from Cooks landing to Mabo, from the Frontier Wars to the 1987 Goondiwindi riots, from the White Australia Policy to Paul Keatings...

In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to these concepts for the first time. Building on revisions and updates to the original essays on...