Guidelines to the politicians handbook reviewed in Parliament
The seventeenth edition of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library handbook, 1971, is praised as a comprehensive, useful source with photos, committee details, and biographical data on Members and Senators. It notes challenges in updating ages and backgrounds, future supplements, and timing around 1971–72 elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth Parliamentary Library
Australian Government Publishing Service
He Historu
Isiestut
Hughes and Graham
Congressional
House of Representatives
Senate
Faiths Concise Encyclopaedia of Living Faiths review
The book edited by R. C. Zachner covers great faiths with compact analyses of Judaism Christianity Islam Zoroastrianism Hinduism Jainism Buddhism Taoism Confucianism Shiism and dialectical materialism. It adapts to a revised 1959 edition and offers a useful further reading list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Zachner
Hutchinson
Chin
Japan
Children’s Book Council Exhibition in Canberra 1972
The Canberra branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia will run a 1972 exhibition at the Canberra Education Centre from 9.30am daily, and 9.30am to 3.30pm next Saturday. Rosemary Cobwn will open the event at 8pm Monday and present poetry awards. The display includes prize winners, international awards, and Australian children’s books with UNESCO’s theme Children around the world through books. The Canberra Public Library children’s section will contribute a special display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children's Book Council of Australia
Canberra
Canberra Education Centre
Old Caneberra High School
Rosemary Cobwn
Ali Holton
Mra L. Rees
New South Wales
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Julianna Bayfield
Act
Nsw
Mra Haze
Hume
J.C. Richardson
Tatumania
J. Farmer
Walter McVirty
W. Pitcher
Australian Council
Aldous Huxley The Satirist Turned Utopian Prophet
Aldous Huxley built early fame as a satirical novelist in the 1920s and died in 1963 as the noted utopian fantasist of Brave New World and Island. Critics debated his lack of deep poetry, his restless shift toward dense fiction, and the enduring appeal of his prophetic writings on population, resources, and the environment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldous Hussey
Asit
D. H. Lawrence
Huxley
Philip Toynbee
Hussey
Toynbee
Brent
Aldous Huxley
Nix
Polymauth
Housley
Hurley’s arc from rationalist to mystic explored
George Windenck offers a portrait of Aldous Huxley, tracing his shift from a rationalist writer to a mystic seeker amid war, politics, and the collapse of scientific certainty. The author argues Huxley’s novels reflect a unifying aim to synthesize knowledge, though later works show decline and a pivot to teachable ideas, while Eyeless in Gaza stands as a focal point of his conversion and critique of pure reason.
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Fac
Huxley
Eax
George Windcnck
Faber
Wondenck
Hurley
Fulke Greville
Gaza
Fueley
Hime
Pope
Pir
Enterié Theories
Gyza
Woodcock
Hussey
Woodenck
Misley
Aldous Huntey
Military Men by Ward Just review and critique
The review analyzes Ward Just's Military Men, a 256 page investigation into the US Army's culture and alienation. It highlights Just's human interest focus over statistics, notes the book surveys officers and draftees, and discusses themes of institutional pride versus societal distrust, class and education gaps, and the soldier’s perspective on war and duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iruma
Jackson
Ward
Erica
Ward Just
America
Mos
Ametin
Inter
Los Angeles
Canberra
The Victorian Celebration of Death
A review of James Stevens Curl and David and Charles’s The Ultimate Cities, praising its exploration of Victorian funeral customs and cemetery culture. The critique notes Gothic burial aesthetics, Highgate by Rossetti, and the shift from ornate to morbid urban necropolises, highlighting curatorial and historical debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Stevens Curl
David and
Charles
Highgate
Elizabeth Siddall
Dante Gabret Rossetti
Rossetti
Elizabeth
Curl
Victoria
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Kingston
Children’s Book Awards
Wimmer
Hesba Brimmead
Angus and Robertson
Magpie Creek
Mattingly Rockhampton Press
Hughie By
David Martin Nahen
Giles Street
Ian AU
Acme
Aecline
Ay Artitto
Don Quixote
Mr Magoo
Menry Ward Iust
Michael Joseph
By Joun Hay
Arden 19
West Point Academy
Giont Marin
Amy Dlivers
Rmuchanien
Phi
Attalian
Telichow
Hatahion
Tom Gethar
Rinu Amelie Bithilio
Angel of Mercy
Jacquesyn Berrill
The
Ultimate
Les Shaw
Bie
Endeave
Mr Dun
London
Westminster
Joseph Taylor
Ireland
Hancock
Monaronas
Serventy
Australia
Castrom
Capital Bookshop
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