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Growing Up African in Australia: Extract
Read Maxine Beneba Clarke's introduction to Growing Up African in Australia.

QE73 is out now
What do Australians want most from their next government? In this vivid, grounded, surprising essay, Rebecca Huntley listens to the people and hears a call for change.

Extract: Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics
‘Australians live in an age in which hardline conservative views on a range of issues set the terms of public policy, sometimes in direct opposition to the desires of the public at large. Why is this so?’
Read an extract from Dominic Kelly’s new book Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics.

AFA5 is out now!
The fifth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia’s struggle to define its place in Asia as it balances its historic ties to the West with its geography.

Growing Up Queer in Australia contributor announcement
Black Inc. is pleased to annouce the contributors to its new anthology, Growing Up Queer in Australia.

Coming soon: new titles from Black Inc. Books
Coming in 2019!

In memorial of Harriet McKnight
Writer and editor Harriet McKnight (1988–2018)

Extract: The Good Plates
Read on for an extract from Les Murray's Collected Poems, with 'The Good Plates.'

Extract: King of the Air
‘We absolutely won’t fail.’ Read on for an extract from Ann Blainey's King of the Air.

Extract: Chinese New Year Dragon
Read on for an excerpt from Alice Pung's collection, Close to Home.