UK-based publisher BookLife Publishing has decided to make a contentious book free to download after calls for it to be banned from Western Sydney libraries.
A Focus On… Same-Sex Parents by Holly Duhig is now available online after the children’s publisher stated on its Facebook page: ‘Our aim is to always provide children with the information, support, understanding and context to help them make sense of the world around them.
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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