Samantha Sharp only had one real dream in her life and it was to be a journalist. Until she started to date her friend Jonathan. She was in love with him from the first time they met as children but she didn't know how real it was till she was in collage. But Jonathan didn't think he was good enough for her so instead of staying with her he ran to California to be a bar manager. Before leaving he saw her and knew something was different but didn't ask her why and he just left. Five years later she comes back to Texas for a visit but her family is surprised when she brings her little boy who looks a lot like Jonathan Carson. This book is about love, dreams and what it means to make both come true.
Buzz thinks he is an ordinary bee - until he discovers that he canâÂÂt stop sneezing when he is around flowers. Follow Buzz and his friends through school and his days working in the beehive. Buzz then sets off on a lifetime adventure with his best friends Wings and Flutter in an attempt to cure his sneezing.
What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life? How do these settings and strategies relate to one another, and how do we know what is working and what is missing from the whole complex tapestry? Taking Australia as a case study that is relevant to all countries where public integrity is an issue, this book offers some new answers to these larger questions. The collection reviews a variety of existing efforts to understand, 'map' and evaluate the effectiveness of integrity policies and institutions, not just in the government sector but across all the major institutions of modern society. It will be of interest to those in governance, politics, law and public policy.
Blue is a spoiled cat who lives to hunt. However the fancy feline is strictly an indoor cat.This does not stop Blue from pursuing her dream of freedom, but is she ready for what the outside world has to offer? A mysterious one-eyed dog, flying rodents and an entirely new realm await her. Let the hunt begin!
Front cover image: Michael Kirby speaking c.1988 (Adelaide Advertiser).2012 Prime Minister's Literary Award - short-listed in the non-fiction category of this prestigious Award.2012 National Biography Award - one of the six titles shortlisted for Australia's pre-eminent prize for biographical writing and memoir.2011 Walkley Book Award FinalistWatch our author AJ Brown in conversation with Michael Kirby at this Australian National University event from May 2011:The remarkable story of the life and work of Australia's most famous modern judge.This biography charts Michael Kirby's extraordinary public life from his first forays as a student politician in the early 1960s, to his appointments as foundation chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission in 1975, President of the NSW Court of Appeal in 1984, and Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009).Internationally, Kirby has been a leader in law reform and human rights with the OECD, UNESCO, UN Human Rights Commission and the WHO Global Program on AIDS. He is a former world president of the International Commission of Jurists, and in 1993-1996 was the first Australian to serve as a Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Human Rights.A J Brown reveals Kirby's difficult and often challenging personal path as judge, public intellectual and gay man. He shows the sharp contrast between Kirby's 30-year love affair with controversial public issues and the reality of a man whose underlying message is deeply traditionalist - that people should have faith in the status quo of political institutions, even the monarchy.He shows also how Kirby's most constant companion - publicity - has been a double-edged sword. Behind his active courtship of an unprecedented judicial profile lay a passion for principles and the social relevance of the law, but it drove him into fierce conflict with the many judges and politicians who questioned whether such celebrity was compatible with judicial life.The slow coming together of his personal, professional and public lives culminates in sharp moments of truth - for Kirby, for powerful institutions, and for a society learning to cope with the challenges of change.The research has included:Exclusive access to over 117 metres of personal and official papers, dating back to the 1940sInterviews with more than 30 of Michael Kirby's closest relatives and colleaguesIndependent research into how falsified records came to be used in Parliament in a direct attack on a High Court judge, andUnprecedented access to the working materials of a High Court judge, including draft judgments and papers normally shredded within judicial chambers.
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