Non-fiction: Bad People & How to Be Rid of Them and three other titles
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Geoffrey Robertson, Vintage, $32.99
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In 2008, Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian accountant, uncovered a $US230 million fraud â perpetrated by corrupt police, Putin-supporting oligarchs and others - and duly notified the authorities. His reward was to be arrested by the very corrupt police he had uncovered, thrown in jail on trumped-up charges, tortured, denied medical help and eventually beaten to death. His legacy is the Magnitsky Law that singles out, not countries or regimes, but individuals guilty of human-rights abuses. Geoffrey Robertson argues passionately for the world-wide adoption of this law to punish human-rights abusers, largely through sanctions such as denying them travel, access to western schools and hospitals. The US, Britain and the EU have signed up, w
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Martin Parkinson will be in conversation with Katharine Murphy on Martin’s essay
A Decade of Drift from Monash University Publishing’s new
In the National Interest series. The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in climate change policy over the past decade contributed to this in Australia? Share
Adlerâs Rolodex draws a political crowd to Monash launch
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Itâs been two years since publisher
Louise Adler and Melbourne University Press pointedly parted ways. So it must have been with some measure of whiplash that some of Melbourneâs more prominent citizens received an invitation from Adler and MUP to launch Adlerâs latest project.
Of course, not
that MUP, one or two slips of the tongue aside. Monash University Publishing (same acronym, different outfit) asked Adler, now a professorial fellow at that university, to âcurateâ its new In The National Interest series. The first cohort of 20,000-word, pamphlet-like books on topics of national importance was launched last Thursday night at Melbourneâs RACV Club, to a mostly local audience that due to recent captivities hadnât seen a canape in months.
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