The health crisis, the migration crisis, the humanitarian crisis, and the climate crisis. The repeating reference to the idea of crisis to label numerous social upheavals suggests that we now live in a world defined by crisis.Yet the urgency inherent in a crisis often leads to the normalization of rights violations and increased surveillance, profiling and arbitrary arrests, making visible the state’s control over bodies, and certain bodies, in particular.Migration and ...

This book began with a simple question: does God truly intervene in the affairs of man?Seeking answers led to my involvement and reporting on the Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires—which I believe to be one of the most significant events in Christian history.I began to study claims of divine intervention. In the lives of the saints, many were said to have performed or experienced miracles. Scripture, too, is filled with accounts of Jesus performing miraculous acts when on ...

Eucharistic Miracles? A piece of bread changes to living human heart.The Shroud of Turin – the blood-stained burial cloth of Christ.A grandmother receives the Stigmata witnessed by 29 million in the USA.God dictates messages and teachings.Are these claims true? What does science have to say?This is the fascinating journey of Australian lawyer, Ron Tesoriero, in pursuit of answers. On the way he invites well-known and highly respect...

In 2019, the ABC aired an explosive investigative documentary, How to Sell a Massacre, revealing how One Nation solicited donations of up to $20 million from the NRA, promising in return to use the balance of power to soften gun laws in Australia. Masterminded by veteran Australian journalist, Peter Charley, the elaborate sting saw Australian businessman Rodger Muller go undercover as the head of a fake Australian pro-gun advocacy group. In How to Sell a Massacre, Peter Charley gives an in...

Billy Martin runs from home, burying his past in the quest for a future. He finds himself in Queensland’s spectacular Gulf Country, on the sprawling cattle runs. The Gulf breeds tough men and Billy is quickly drawn to the excitement and adventure of working with the fiery cattleman and ex-con Blake Reilly and his daughter, Jo. Billy finds mateship, danger and romance in the Gulf, but he also finds an untamed and violent land. In the brooding heat and unpredictable storms, the future he had...

In this vivacious memoir, Thomas Keneally conjures up his youthful self at a pivotal period in his life – as a red-haired teenager who idolised Gerald Manley Hopkins, had visions of being a sporting hero and dreamed of winning the heart of the alluring Bernadette Curran. The one role he did not see himself playing was priest, despite the encouragement of the Brothers at his Catholic school – until Bernadette announced her intention of becoming a nun. Drawing an affectionate portrait of the...