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![]() ![]() Other climate ideas include “a transmission fund through the CEFC to connect the new grid”, akin to Labor’s $20bn rewiring the nation plan, and to “cut taxes and consider new emissions standards for Australian cars to promote electric vehicles”, a policy championed by teal independents.īragg labels super a “significant failure” that “doesn’t get many people off the pension, costs the budget more than it saves and reduces agency and individual choices”.īragg wants a pause to super increases, which are legislated to lift from 10% to 12%, allow people to access super for housing “without heavy restrictions” and set up “a permanent system” to opt out of compulsory super in favour of higher wages “during certain periods”. In a policy manifesto released on Wednesday, Bragg echoes Malcolm Turnbull’s calls for climate policy to “move beyond ideology”, including by adopting more ambitious “emissions reduction signals at 20”. With former home affairs minister Karen Andrews withdrawing from the race on Tuesday, the deputy leadership is likely to be contested by Sussan Ley, favoured by conservatives, and moderates Jane Hume and Anne Ruston. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rafe and Isa shared a passionate love affair, so attracted to each other it was tangible. ![]() Mostly I loved the writing and visuals the series conveyed. After a stunning introduction (book one), book two was the breadth of story development with more action in books three and four. A decided slow burn, I would have been content with less detail. I received an ARC of this series in exchange for an honest review!ĭNF halfway through book 2! Dark romance, be warned! Overall, I liked the series, love’s partnership in an age-gap romance with intrigue, beauty, cunning and a hint of darkness. I love mafia romance and I really enjoyed the prequel and book 1 of this series. However once the MFC was kidnapped and held against her will the book got really dark, real fast, and I couldn’t finish book 2. Turns out dub-con is a limit for me especially since the main character is so young (18) and the mafia boss Rafaele is in his thirties. If Isa had been older and more experienced I think I wouldn’t have minded as much. But for me, Rafe came across more like a predator than a lover and I couldn’t see him care about Isa at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() The development most likely to prod Senate action is the result of the presidential election. Such arguments have not swayed Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who refuses to let Garland come to a vote. 8 election, insist that Obama’s successor name Scalia’s replacement, who could have a lasting effect on the ideological balance of a court now split with four liberals and four conservatives. Republicans, hopeful of winning back the White House from the Democrats in the Nov. The Senate’s inaction on Garland has made the court vacancy a key political prize in a presidential election year. Constitution assigns the Senate the power to confirm the president’s nominations to the Supreme Court. In 1916, the Senate voted to confirm Brandeis, making him America’s first Jewish justice. 13, Garland, chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington, has now matched Louis Brandeis for the longest time between nomination and Senate action. Having been nominated on March 16 to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. In a move with little precedent in American history, the Republicans who control the Senate have simply refused to take any action on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Garland, 63, for a lifetime job on the nation’s top court. Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, meets with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) (unseen) on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 25, 2016. ![]() ![]() Ubik crosses the boundaries of life, death and reality with the story of Glen Runciter. But Arnie is poisoning the lives of everyone around him.ĭo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dick's grim vision of a bounty hunter stalking renegade replicants through a devastated future was made into the film Blade Runner. In Martian time-Slip Arnie Kott and his plumbing union control the entire water supply on Mars. In The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch mankind is offered a permanent shared illusory world when industrialist Eldritch introduces the alien drug Chew-Z. ![]() 'For everyone lost in the endlessly multiplicating realities of the modern world, remember: Philip K. Dick's tales of twisted perceptions and false realities have shaped modern SF and provided the inspiration for numerous blockbuster movies. ![]() An omnibus volume of five of the best novels by 'the most consistently brilliant SF writer in the world' (John Brunner). ![]() ![]() The trailer called 'The Whimsical Fellowship' features all your favourite Tolkien characters but this time they are played by the likes of Timothee Chalamet, Ben Stiller, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Owen Wilson to name a few. Now Curious Refuge have used AI to imagine what a Wes Anderson Lord of the Rings film would be like. Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter If you aren't aware, a YouTube channel called Curious Refuge has been using artificial intelligence to create trailers for famous movies but reimagining them as if they were directed by Anderson in his typical whimsical aesthetic.Įarlier this month a version of Star Wars directed by Wes Anderson went viral and immediately caused some division with many fans wishing it was a real movie while others felt that the trailer missed the point of what makes Star Wars and Anderson movies great. ![]() ![]() The actor Jared Gilman, best known for his role in Wes Anderson's 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom has branded a new AI trend surrounding the director as "bulls**t." ![]() ![]() ![]() A graphic novel adaptation was published in July 2010. Poirots Finest Cases And Then There Were None Cards on the Table. In 2005 David Suchet starred in the story for the series Agatha Christie’s Poirot, and Zoë Wanamaker was Ariadne Oliver, a role which would become associated with the actress. Written by: Agatha Christie Narrated by: Lyndsey Marshal, John Rowe. ![]() It was adapted for stage in 1981, omitting the character of Poirot as Agatha Christie had done in many of her own adaptations, and opened at the Vaudeville Theatre. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about. He was also a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. ![]() Shaitana was famous, as were his parties. One of the characters of the story even recognises Mrs Oliver as writing the novel The Body in the Library, a title Christie then adopted for her own Marple novel in 1942. A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players Mr. This book was the debut of Agatha Christie’s literary alter ego and parody of herself, Ariadne Oliver, a popular detective writer through whom Christie often voiced her opinions of the industry. The foreword even mentions that this was one of Poirot’s favourite cases, while Hastings found it rather dull. Poirot uses psychology and the bridge scores to find the killer, and discovers that four guests have murdered before. Four murders, four detectives, Agatha Christie present a clever puzzle at a bridge game in which any player could have murdered their loathsome host. Cards on the Table is an Agatha Christie detective fiction murder mystery first published in 1936. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With these books he has pulled off no mean feat: literary masterpieces that also happen to be page-turners. His feel for dialogue and rhythm is superb, his control and timing masterful. The joy is in Temple’s writing – so tight and pared back that it almost seems to be in code. Temple follows some crime-writing conventions – yes there are crimes to be solved, yes the plot thickens, yes there are flawed cops with problems of their own – but he folds in so many layers with so much style that genre becomes irrelevant. Part of the evidence is a man with a guitar and a very special song. The Broken Shore (winner of multiple international crime writing awards) and Truth (winner of the Miles Franklin) are set in Victoria. ![]() When you finish the first you can immediately dive into the next. Why have one beach read when you can have two? Start with Peter Temple’s brilliant crime novel The Broken Shore, safe in the knowledge that you’ve got its equally wonderful companion novel, Truth, lurking in your beach bag. The Broken Shore followed by Truth by Peter Temple ![]() ![]() ![]() Louisa does not understand her husband’s mysterious purposes, but she cannot deny the pleasure her body takes in his touch. Still, when he is the only man to propose at the end of the London season, she reluctantly accepts. ![]() She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the praise he garners everywhere he goes. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth-though he seems inexplicably interested in her. Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. From the superbly gifted Sherry Thomas comes this beautifully written romance about a marriage of convenience that turns inconveniently passionate.įelix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. ![]() ![]() ![]() Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, September 2012: Seal, human, sea, sky, and the rocks themselves animate this powerful story, a blend of folk tale and pungent, sharply observed-or invented-regionality." "Lanagan’s world is busily, passionately alive. Starred Review, The Horn Book, September/October 2012: A beautifully written story featuring a thoroughly realized setting and cast." Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, July 2, 2012: Earthy, vigorous characters and prose ground the narrative in the world we know, yet its themes are deep as the sea." Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2012: ![]() "A haunting, masterfully crafted novel that, as one should by now expect from Lanagan, isn’t a bit like anything else." ![]() It will break your heart, and remake it.” "I've not been more moved by a book in years.It’s a wistful book, but wondrous. Publishers Weekly Best of Children's Books 2012 ![]() |