The Way We Are by Hugh Mackay

The Way We Are by Hugh MackayAustralia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its futureLife is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. Yet none of our differences whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender are nearly as significant as the humanity we share. Amidst our epidemics of loneliness, anxiety and depression, and the impacts of entrenched poverty

literary and artistic sources

A Book of the Year in The Times and The New Statesman

bunyips and monster apes

They enlist the help of a small mechanical rabbit named Miskit

is chronicled in heartbreaking detail in Our Class

Award-winning writer Michael Winkler braids the story of Grim in Australia and meditations on pain with thoughts on masculinity and vulnerability

It is fiction

Victor's story is unassuming and honest

For if she cannot

more compassionate and purposeful with our livesWild Wisdom recounts the story of social entrepreneur and philanthropist Christine Amour-Levar and the all-female expeditions she has led across the globe via her two non-profit organisations

often with devastating results

keeping safe'(Pitjantjatjara)