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Future Leaders is a national Initiative about leadership and the future of Australia. It seeks to involve, inform and inspire young people.
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Future Justice Future Justice is concerned with what those living today leave behind for future generations. In the first part of the book leading academics and
thinkers explore the meaning of future justice and our responsibilities with respect to the environment, Indigenous Australians, refugees, science, human
rights education, sexuality, economics, Southeast Asia, a Human Rights Charter, the United Nations and the Australian Constitution. The second part
of the book features writing by young people on violent conflict, dementia, identity, death, love, celebrity procreation and climate change. |
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Perspectives The writing by leading Australian thinkers in the first part of this book looks at fine tuning of our democracy, perspectives about the future and adequately meeting the needs of vulnerable people.
In the second part, aspiring talented young writers similarly address a range of societal issues including mental illness, old age, human rights, peace and divorce. These essays, submitted for the Future Leaders Writing Prize, show admirable understanding of the frailty and strength of the human condition. |
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Climate Change On for Young & Old This book is about climate change and its increasing threat to human civilization. In the first part, leading Australian academics, environmentalists and thinkers write about the effects and experience of rapid climate change in Australia and globally.
In the second part, talented young writers, entrants in the Future Leaders Climate Writing Award, offer a combination of gloomy assessment, despair and hope in looking at the current and potential impacts of climate change. It is clear from the contents of the book that we must move with great speed and effectiveness to secure our future. As Sir Nicholas Stern pointed out, ‘There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.’ |
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Issues of Our Time This book is about significant issues in our society today. It aims to be an accessible resource about these issues and an inspiration for young people engaged in writing about experiences, observations and concerns they feel are important. The first part of the book features writing by leading Australian thinkers who address various issues such as climate change, children, democracy, Indigenous discrimination, higher education, housing, sexuality and bioethics. The second part contains selected essays submitted for the Future Leaders Writers’ Prize and Future Leaders Climate Writing Award in 2007. The writing by talented young Australians covers many issues including depression, racism, homelessness, nuclear waste and the war on terror. The writers’ clarity of thought and analysis and skill in communicating the issues under discussion is cause for much hope. |
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What Difference Does Writing Make?: Leading Writers on Writing This is a book about writing. Its aim is to encourage young people to develop
their talents as writers and to show in how many different ways writing
matters. The first part of the book contains five essays by well known
Australian writers. Novelist Alex Miller, playwright Hannie Rayson
and poet Dorothy Porter show how creative writing can expand our consciousness,
why 'passion and intensity' matter and how engaged writers enter into
a free and frank discussion with their moment in history. Indigenous
lawyer and novelist Larissa Behrendt and journalist Louise Milligan
describe the role of writing in other contexts. The second part of
the book contains selected essays submitted for the Future Leaders
Writers’ Prize in 2005 and 2006. |
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