Not Now, Not Ever edited by Julia Gillard, Vintage Australia
It was a speech that stopped the world, a rallying cry that burst forth unexpected and authentic. Ten years after then-Aussie PM Julia Gillard’s excoriating retort in Parliament to Tony Abbott, the Leader of the Opposition, this powerful collection of essays revisits the importance of that moment as women recall their memories of October 9, 2012, and examine why it was a moment in history. Then Governor-General, Dame Quentin Bryce recalls being stunned, furious and then relieved that Julia had “confronted the disgraceful, debilitating insults, the personal denigrations, slimy innuendos …with searing emotion”. Misogyny is still with us – Julia calls it “a heavy burden” – but together, she notes, we can end it.
Suburban Noir by Peter Doyle, NewSouth…
