Erich Mayer

Erich Mayer is a retired company director and former organic walnut farmer.

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Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman

Terra Nullius is an exquisite parable about the European invasion of Australia.

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Watching Out by Julian Burnside

Burnside explains, with clarity and passion, how the Australian legal system works.

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The List by Michael Brissenden

A novel about a team of counter-terrorist experts desperately trying to prevent a major disaster in Sydney.

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And Fire Came Down by Emma Viskic

Caleb is quixotic, obstinate, resilient, tough and too honest for his own good.

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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar

If this book were a painting, the canvas would be too large to fit into a gallery.

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Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

The authors explain both simple and complex examples of algorithms and relate them to the human experience.

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Securing Australia’s Future by Simon Torok and Paul Holper

Torok and Holper have distilled the many recommendations of the ACOLA reports into an eminently readable and persuasive form.

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Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

The melancholy in Murakami’s writing is something that is not quite hope and yet pays tribute to the human spirit.

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Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

A book by George Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller.

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The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Selin is gifted, energetic and naive – and she wants to be a writer.

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