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May 9: The Opera House
Peter FitzSimons … in conversation with Bill Kable
Australia’s greatest storyteller captures the drama and history of Sydney’s most iconic building in an unusual biography. Peter takes us back to the days before colonisation and the land of the Gadigal people. From there we go to a design competition won by an architect in Denmark who had never designed a building that was then completed. Yet somehow the faith of a few in the genius who was Joern Utzon carried the many naysayers with them. This is a story that involves murder, betrayal and personal ruin. It is also the story of a symbol of modern Australia that stands alongside the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal and other world heritage sites as an architectural masterpiece.
May 16: Keith Urban
Jeff Apter … in conversation with Bill Kable
He has won Four Grammies and had 20 US number ones. Now he has a Hollywood marriage. This is a long way from Keith Urban’s humble origins in the suburbs of Brisbane. Keith’s father worked at the local tip and Keith was a high school dropout. But Keith had a plan to conquer Nashville and he saw his guitar playing as the way to achieve his destiny. So that meant moving to Nashville in the 1990s and forming a band called The Ranch. But still Keith could not make a mark on the scene and then came the first of several breakdowns. Ultimately his talent, charisma, sex appeal and dogged perseverance won out. Jeff Apter has been following the journey of Keith Urban for decades and here for the first time we get a look at what makes up our own Australian raised superstar.
May 23: L Platers
Madonna King … in conversation with Bill Kable
The world is a very different place from two years ago. And the impact on our 16-, 17- and 18-year-old girls is huge.
They have had to deal with enormous disruption and dislocation, and come to terms with living life from their bedrooms. The long stints of remote learning and the anxiety of at-home exams has compounded with the ever-present pressure of the ATAR and worries around friendships and relationships, who they want to be, gender identity, alcohol, vaping, and sex, body image and mental health. Self-harm and eating disorders have risen dramatically. For school-leavers, the uncertainty around university study and the jobs market only adds to the heavy toll.
Having consulted 1000 young women, along with parents, senior educators, and health care professionals in her research for this book journalist and social commentator Madonna King delivers the answers we need as parents to help our girls on the road to adulthood.
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