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Things that "allegedly" happened at the Aus tour that might have caused William to initiate the royal foundation split asap -
1. Jason stayed back in London at KP and did not accompany the couple to Australia. Quite a bit of the HnM staff went to Australia but point of contact the remained Jason in London. The harkle shenanigans were directly reported to Jason at KP during this time. And maybe Jason talked to William while Harry was away
2. Jessica accompanied Meghan as her stylist. But essentially Meghan and Jessica treated it as a holiday and wanted to do holiday stuff even though the couple's schedule was packed. Rumours are that Jessica/Meghan billed Clarence house for this styling expenses.
3. Meghan sort of sabotaged Invictus and wanted to be there with Harry at every Invictus appearance and give a speech as well. Harry in the end, ditched Invictus and only did a couple of appearances to give a speech. But did not meet with the organizers or the participants. While this is not related to RF or KP directly, it showed bad faith. Now we know they did mistreat David Beckham.
4. Jessica's husband Ben had also come over from Canada with a crew. This was done in the garb of covering invictus but rumours were that Meghan wanted to do an exclusive interview about her pregnancy. The staff put a stop to this. Seems like this was a similar arrangement to what the couple eventually did in SA with Bradby and the "no one asked if im okay" interview.
5. Meghan's people had kinda roped in Jaguar to be Invictus sponcers and arranged a Jaguar to be gifted to Ben as a thank you gift for the exclusive interview with the Canadian network. Staff got to know and put a stop to it becoming news. Rumours are that Ben then flew back, but still got the Jaguar.
6. Meghan did not like staying at the governor generals official residence. Esp since Jessica was with her. She wanted the whole house as opposed to a wing. Jason and the KP team had to sort that headache out and smooth it out with the Australian team. Meghan remained mad.
7. She had an argument with the Governor generals wife, allegedly over staff treatment. rumours are that Meghan used the F- word and rolled her eyes. Happened in front of KP and aus staff. This was pretty much a diplomatic incidence and BP+govt got involved.
8. She wanted to accompany Harry at every one of his solo engagements. This caused quite a bit of hassles last minute. They were late to nearly all their engagements.
9. The blood diamond earrings situation happened. She wore the earrings without letting the staff know. KP/London staff were told one thing and issued a statement but later were told by staff in Australia about the true provenance. From a diplomatic pov this was a very bad look but Meghan said she did not care.
10. Tea throwing incidence happened and tea allegedly spilled over one of her PAs. That PA was being bullied by Meghan for a while and decided to leave. She was paid and an iron clad NDA had to be signed. But this incidence became quite an big legal issue for KP and there was allegedly a super injunction about this.
11. Jason decided to officially forward the bullying complaint to Simon case, BP HR and CH in writing. And maybe talked to William because staff's mental health was at stake.
12. She walked out of the UN women engagement after 10min and berated her staff, while at the venue, for arranging this. She allegedly ripped her Amy and her female body guard a new one infront of everyone, including royal rota. Amy cried. And the female bodyguard handed in her resignation that day.
13. She allegedly skipped/ditched some engagements to go to a spa/resort with Jessica. This caused some embarrassment because a lot of people had put in a lot of time and efforts into making these happen- reporters, organizers, local authorities, security, attending public and staff were all left embarrassed.
14. She was merching throughout the tour. She had arranged for merching deals and freebies and the staff wasn't made aware. Ethically, this caused quite some problems for KP. Gifts were also accepted in Australia personally by the couple against staff advice.
15. The pricetag on one of her dresses was left on when she walked out of a plane. She was embarrassed and ripped into her assistant for that. That was a merch which went wrong for her.
16. The couple was rude to the royal rota throughout. Even though the rota had been previously briefed about the kind of coverage Meghan wanted. Jason had to frantically be smooth things over constantly from London to ensure positive coverage from the press.
17. At least 4 members of meghans staff handed in their notice while on tour. This got back to KP/William who felt they had to act asap.
18. The couple constantly rowed while in Australia, and staff was put in an impossible sandwich situation while dealing with two. Both H and M were constantly on social media checking commments and were issued that public was criticising Meghan. They constantly telling staff to cover social media and clab back, instead of doing actual work.
Thank you so much! I remembered it was a disaster, but I’d forgotten some of the details.
They also took some vacation days at a resort, and there were rumors it was a freebie. And she made that speech claiming she’d paid her way through Northwestern and her dad and sister clapped back at that.
It really was a nightmare. I smh whenever Harry claims his family was jealous about how well they did in Australia.
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James Allan Mollison was born on April 19th 1905 in Glasgow.
Graeme Obree, Chris Hoy and a certain steam train have all bee called The Flying Scotsman in their time, but the original title goes to a man who actually did fly, Jim Mollison.
Jim would go on to become a pioneering aviator, breaking records for long distance flights. His marriage to fellow aviator Amy Johnson also saw them lauded as the golden couple during their time together.
Born the only child of Hector Alexander Mollison, a consultant engineer, and Thomasina Macnee Addie. He was educated at The Glasgow Academy and Edinburgh Academy and took an early interest in flying and obtaining his Royal Air Force (RAF) Short Service Commission at 18, he was the youngest officer in the service, and upon completion of training was posted to India, flying on active service in Waziristan.
At the age of 22, Mollison became a flying instructor at Central Flying School (CFS), again setting the record for being the youngest in this role. Shortly after, he transferred to the RAF Reserve and devoted his time to civil aviation.
In 1928-29, he served as an instructor with the South Australian Aero Club in Adelaide, leaving that position to become a pilot with Eyre Peninsular Airways and Australian National Airways.
In July-August 1931, Mollison set a record time of eight days, 19 hours for a flight from Australia to England, and in March 1932, a record for flying from England to South Africa in 4 days, 17 hours flying a de Havilland Puss Moth.
Mollison eventually served in the ATA Air Transport Auxiliary in the Second World War. In June 1941 Mollison and an ATA crew delivered Cunliffe-Owen OA-1 G-AFMB to Fort Lamy, Chad. The aircraft was fitted out as a personal transport for General De Gaulle.
Mollison was feted in London and New York, and could lead the life he had always wanted. “I am a night bird,” he once said. “Life and enjoyment begin when daylight fades. Cocktail bars and clubs, music, beautiful women— that’s living. Daylight comes to me as an interval for sleeping until an afternoon drink helps to bring on another evening.” His autobiography was called “Playboy of the Air”.
When Mollison and Amy Jonson married in 1932 the press were delighted, they were dubbed The Flying Sweethearts by the press and public. . The match was was perfect for the publicity machine, and the two of them set about devising new aviation records: in 1933 they flew together from Wales to New York and had a ticker-tape reception in Wall Street. But marriage did not last long or end well. It has sometimes been assumed that the match was a simple career move on Mollison's part: certainly he did not halt his relationships with other women. Nor did it limit his drinking. As I said earlier, he got the tag “ the Flying Scotsman” but those close to him called him “Brandy Jim”.
As well as his Playboy lifestyle and heavy drinking Jim Mollison was also quick with his fists, and a manager from the Grosvenor House Hotel was reported as saying ” We've had the most awful night here. Jim Mollison and Amy Johnson had a fearful row and he's beaten her up. The bathroom looks like a slaughterhouse.” The marriage officially ended in 1938.
Mollison kept flying, and – like Johnson – flew in a non-combat role in WWII. Both of them flew in the Air Transport Auxiliary. Johnson died in 1941 after baling out of aircraft. Mollison had at least one close escape, when his plane was shot up, but survived the war.
Mollison later settled in London and ran a public house. He married Maria Clasina E. Kamphuis in 1949 at the Maidenhead Register Office. Mollison continued to abused alcohol and in 1953, the Civil Aviation Authority Medical Board revoked his pilot's licence. The couple separated but Maria bought the Carisbrooke Hotel in Surbiton for him – a temperance hotel.
Suffering from acute alcoholism, he was admitted to The Priory, Roehampton, southwest London, where he died on 30 October 1959, the official cause of death was pneumonia, but unofficially it was thought to be alcoholic epilepsy.
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🦘 Booklr Reads Australian - Authors on My Shelves 🐨
so, I’ve been trying to think of a way to recommend a lot of Australian authors really quickly for Booklr Reads Australian. what I came up with was just to give y’all a giant list of all the authors I have at home!
most of them are YA and/or fantasy authors, and I’ve marked my favourites with an asterisk (*) but if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an ask 😊
1. Sarah Ayoub
2. Eugen Bacon
3. Shirley Barber *
4. AJ Betts
5. Danielle Binks *
6. Cally Black
7. Steph Bowe *
8. Alice Boyle
9. JC Burke
10. Meg Caddy *
11. Frances Chapman
12. Wai Chim *
13. Claire Christian
14. Lyndall Clipstone
15. Claire G Coleman
16. Katherine Collette
17. Harry Cook
18. Cath Crowley
19. Robyn Dennison
20. Cale Dietrich
21. Lauren Draper
22. CG Drews *
23. Michael Earp
24. Kate Emery
25. Sarah Epstein
26. Alison Evans *
27. Fleur Ferris
28. Carly Findlay
29. Helena Fox
30. Lisa Fuller
31. Emily Gale
32. Meg Gatland-Veness
33. Sophie Gonzales
34. Erin Gough *
35. Leanne Hall *
36. Pip Harry
37. Sonya Hartnett
38. Adam Hills
39. Simmone Howell
40. Megan Jacobson
41. Amie Kaufman
42. Melissa Keil
43. Nina Kenwood
44. Sharon Kernot
45. Kay Kerr *
46. Will Kostakis
47. Jay Kristoff
48. Ambelin Kwaymullina
49. Benjamin Law
50. Rebecca Lim
51. Gary Lonesborough *
52. Kathleen Loughnan
53. Miranda Luby
54. Tobias Madden
55. Melina Marchetta
56. Ellie Marney *
57. Freya Marske
58. Jodi McAlister *
59. Margot McGovern *
60. Nikki McWatters
61. Anna Morgan
62. Jaclyn Moriarty
63. Liane Moriarty
64. Garth Nix
65. Lynette Noni
66. Carly Nugent
67. Poppy Nwosu
68. Kate O’Donnell
69. Shivaun Plozza
70. Michael Pryor
71. Alice Pung
72. Emily Rodda *
73. Autumn Royal
74. Omar Sakr
75. Holden Sheppard
76. AG Slatter
77. Jo Spurrier
78. Krystal Sutherland *
79. Jared Thomas
80. Hayli Thompson
81. Gabrielle Tozer
82. Christos Tsiolkas
83. Alicia Tuckerman
84. Ellen van Neerven
85. Marlee Jane Ward
86. Vikki Wakefield
87. Lisa Walker
88. Jessica Watson *
89. Allayne L Webster
90. Anna Whateley *
91. Samantha Wheeler
92. Jen Wilde *
93. Rhiannon Wilde
94. Lili WIlkinson
95. Gabrielle Williams
96. Rhiannon Williams
97. Fiona Wood
98. Leanne Yong
99. Suzy Zail
100. Nevo Zisin
101. Markus Zusak
#booklr reads australian#booklr#bookblr#read australian#loveozya#trcc original#book recs#book recommendations
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I borrowed this book out from my local library and I loved it. I highly recommend it. The book is about a Deaf girl named Piper who falls in love with Marley who's mum is Deaf. It's set in the future where there is a food shortage and Piper works hard to grow vegetables to eat. Marley teaches Piper how to sign Auslan (Australian Sign Language) she is new to. The book features some beautiful art work and a chart for finger spelling.
I have been studying Auslan for more than a year now and I think it is a fun language to learn. Sometimes as an Autistic person I have trouble with spoken communication and Auslan has given me a new way to communicate and express myself.
The author of this book is Deaf and there are heaps of references to Deaf culture in this book. I like to learn about Deaf culture and how I can Sign to communicate with Deaf people who Sign Auslan. I would recommend this book to anyone who is learning a Sign language.
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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To A Very Radiant & Fabulous Redheaded Actress Hailing All The Way From Down Under Australia 🇦🇺 She is an Australian actress and author. Born to Scottish parents in Oman, she moved to Australia at age six where she began appearing in television commercials. Fisher came to prominence for her portrayal of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 1994–97, for which she received two Logie Award nominations. After various appearances on television and stage, She made a successful transition to Hollywood with her portrayal of Mary Jane in the 2002 live-action adaptation of Scooby-Doo. And has since played prominent roles in films such as Wedding Crashers (2005), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Bachelorette (2012), The Great Gatsby, Now You See Me (both 2013), and Nocturnal Animals (2016). Her other notable credits include Swimming Pool (2001), I Heart Huckabees (2004), London (2005), Wedding Daze (2006), The Lookout, Hot Rod (both 2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), Burke & Hare (2010), Visions (2015), Grimsby, Keeping Up with the Joneses (both 2016), Tag (2018), The Beach Bum, Greed (both 2019), and Blithe Spirit (2020). She has also voiced characters in animated films such as Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Rango (2011), and My 1# Favorite DreamWorks Animated Film Of All Times Rise of the Guardians (2012) as The Tooth 🦷Fairy 🧚♀️ Please Wish This Radiant Redhead Actress from Down Under a Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 & don't confuse her with Amy Adams of course even if they do look like 😉 @islafisher Ms. Isla Fisher 👩🦰🇦🇺 #IslaFisher https://www.instagram.com/p/CoOg_wlrG1LzVFwy0oSETgvq5Vzx786Ld6W0OE0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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just read: Search History by Amy Taylor
A funny and timely novel about a woman who becomes obsessed with stalking the dormant social medias of her new boyfriends ex, who passed away. Described as "Rebecca" meets "Fleabag" which I would say is generally accurate, though without the finesse of either of those comps.
The first section of this I thought was great - funny, relatable, fast paced and zeitgeisty. The second half, I thought it dropped off a lot. I don't feel the author knew exactly what she wanted to say and brought all the threads together very clumsily. I felt she tried to 'redeem' the main character in a way that felt undeserved, and I wished she had leaned into it a little more. It's almost like she got too scared to 'go there' with the character and story and it made the ending unsatisfying. This is where the Rebecca and Fleabag comparisons really undermined the quality of the story.
It's a debut novel and I thought that really showed in some of the writing. I listened to the audiobook and liked the narrator. I would give this author another chance in the future.
genres: contemporary, romance
translator: nil
rating: 2 star
themes: romance and dating in the modern era, social media, contemporary australia, identity, obsession
After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job at an overly enthusiastic tech start-up and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan. Charming, kind and financially responsible, Evan is a complete aberration from her usual type, and Ana feels like she has finally awoken from a long dating nightmare.
As much as she tries to let their burgeoning relationship unfold IRL, Ana can't resist the urge to find Evan online. When she discovers that his previous girlfriend, Emily, died unexpectedly in a hit-and-run less than a year ago, Ana begins to worry she's living in the shadow of his lost love. Soon she's obsessively comparing herself to Emily, trawling through her dormant social media accounts in the hope of understanding her better. Online, Evan and Emily's life together looked perfect, but just how perfect was it? And why won't he talk about it?
Search History is a sharply funny debut novel about identity, obsession and desire in the internet age from one of the most perceptive and original new voices in Australian fiction.
#search history#amy taylor#world fiction#auslit#australia#oceania#i really respected how coo coo bananas this girl acted until the author decided no none of that anymore#idk was a little ...#and then to say it's modern rebecca!
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2024 Follow the Clues Reading Challenge
My Goodreads group sometimes does an annual A-Z reading challenge where there are clues and you need to read a book that satisfies each clue. Got together with my friend @alchemic-fallen-angel to make our own list for this year. Feel free to use the list of clues as inspiration for your own reading challenge :)
Mel and Niamh's 2024 A-Z Follow the Clues
01/01/24 - 31/12/24
5/26 (5/5 AA 🦘) (last updated 21/01/24)
✅A - Read a book by an AUSTRALIAN author – Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales 🦘 4🌟 - finished 16/01/24
✅B - Read a book with a BOOK on the cover – Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree 4🌟 - finished 11/01/24
C - Read a book where there is a CONSPIRACY – A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole
D - Read a book published a DECADE ago (2014) – Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner (published 18/09/14)
E - Read an ENCHANTING book – Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
✅F - Read a book with a strong FRIENDSHIP – Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli 4🌟 - finished 14/01/24
G – Read a GRAPHIC novel – The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle 🦘
H - Read a book with a HOUSE on the cover – The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
I - Read a book set on an ISLAND – Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
J - Read a book where a character is seeking JUSTICE – Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
K - Read a book where KING appears in the title or story – The Girl King by Mimi Yu
✅L – Read a book you borrowed from the LIBRARY – Icebreaker by Hannah Grace 3.5🌟 - finished 19/01/24
M - Read a book with a MENTAL illness featured – History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
N - Read a NEW release (published 2024) - Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup (expected publication 05/02/2024)
O - Read a book with an OLDER protagonist (40+) – The Guncle by Steven Rowley
P - Read a book with a PICTURESQUE scene on the cover – A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo
✅Q – Read a QUEER (LGBTQ+) book – 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall 4🌟 - finished 07/01/24
R – Read a book with a RED cover – Puddin' by Julie Murphy
S - Read a book that is SECOND in a series – Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
T - Read a book that features TIME TRAVEL – Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
U - Read a book featuring a character in UNIFORM – All Systems Red by Martha Wells
V - Read a book with a VOLUNTEER – This is How it Happened by Paula Stokes
W – Read a book with WATER on the cover – Flight by Jae Waller 🦘
X - Read a book with a XENO (alien) in the story – Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Y - Read a book with a YOUNG protagonist (15 or younger) – Rockstar Detectives by Adam Hills 🦘
Z - Read a book with a ZEALOUS character – The Heart of the World by Amie Kaufman 🦘
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Birthdays 11.15
Beer Birthdays
Carry Nation; temperance nut job, terrorist (1846)
Gustave Pabst (1866)
Bob Leggett (1953)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Poul Anderson; writer (1926)
Christina Applegate; actor (1971)
Paul Desmond; jazz saxophonist (1924)
P.D. Eastman; writer (1909)
Virgil Thomson; composer (1896)
Famous Birthdays
Nat Adderley; trumpet player (1931)
Alice Ambrose; philosopher and logician (1906)
Winthrop Ames; director and screenwriter (1870)
Karl Benz; German engineer, inventor (1844)
Marc Brown; author and illustrator (1946)
Alfred Capus; French journalist, author, and playwright (1858)
Andrew Carnegie; businessman (1835)
Cris Carter; Minnesota Vikings WR (1965)
Katie Cassidy; actres (1986)
Chris Claremont; English-American author (1950)
Gail Collins; journalist and author (1945)
Kathryn Crosby; actress and singer (1933)
Maurice Denis; French painter (1870)
Bucky Dent; New York Yankess SS (1951)
Lope de Vega; Spanish playwright and poet (1562)
Joe DiMaggio; New York Yankees OF (1914)
Lars Eighner; author (1948)
Takayo Fischer; actress and singer (1932)
Jill Flint; actress (1977)
Roelof Frankot; Dutch painter and photographer (1911)
Shelagh Fraser; English actress (1920)
Mark Frost; author and screenwriter (1953)
Kate Gleason; engineer (1865)
Amy Grant; pop singer (1960)
Harley Granville-Barker; British actor and director (1877)
Franz Xaver Gruber; Austrian organist and composer (1787)
Charlaine Harris; author and poet (1951)
Jill Hennessy; Canadian actor (1968)
Stephanie Hsu; actress (1990)
Jeffrey Hunter; actor (1926)
Ilja Hurník; Czech composer and playwright (1922)
Ba Jin; Chinese writer (1904)
Albert Henry Krehbiel; painter and illustrator (1873)
John Larriquette; actor (1947)
Bob Lind; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942)
Peg Lynch; actress and screenwriter (1916)
Donovan McNabb; Philadelphia Eagles QB (1976)
Ricardo Montalban; actor (1920)
Lenny Moore; Baltimore Colts HB (1933)
Bill Morrissey; singer-songwriter (1951)
Patrick Nagel; artist, illustrator (1945)
Noel Neill; actress (1920)
Herschel Savage; porn actor (1952)
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck; English author and activist (1778)
Ernst Schröder; German mathematician (1841)
Jean-François Séguier; French astronomer and botanist (1703)
Percy Sledge; pop singer (1941)
Laurence Stallings; writer (1894)
Ben Stein; speechwriter, actor, creationist wingnut (1944)
Edward Traisman; invented Cheez Whiz, freezing process for McDonald’s fries (1915)
Woody Woodpecker; cartoon (1940)
Alexis Wright; Australian author (1950)
Takaaki Yoshimoto; Japanese poet and philosopher(1924)
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Scissor me on parenting
In a story on the book ‘Welcome to Sex’, Amy Remeikis writes in The Guardian:
The response to a sex education and consent book which was removed from the shelves of Big W stores shows how far Australia still has to go on sex education, a Senate committee inquiry has heard. Welcome to Sex, co-authored by the former Dolly Doctor and adolescent health expert Dr Melissa Kang and feminist writer Yumi Stynes, became the target of an online protest campaign. The book was pulled from shelves at Big W after staff members were abused.
I’m fairly done with the constant outrage in society today, the idea that we just need to be upset all day every day. It keeps journalists employed and right wing activist social media groups active. But I will say, I don’t want Luna or Goldie to stumble across this book in a bookstore without me there to guide them.
I have a theory that the problem with modern Australian society is that continue outsourcing jobs that families, humans, friends and partners should be doing. An example is there’s a guy in a Facebook group today hiring people to be friends with disabled kids and it’s NDIS funded. We’ve outsourced friendship to the Commonwealth. Even in COVID most didn’t understand that the reasons for the lockdowns and border closures is because we have outsourced out community wellbeing to the state, so their undertaking of the ‘contract’ is to minimise expenses.
As it is with this book, it’s a vendor looking to win the contract for the outsourcing of your parenting.
My worldview is that there are matters for the home, for the community, for the family, to deal with, fix, entertain, talk about.
An example is my controversial opinion that I don’t like abortion. I have no problem with liberal/progressive abortion laws, it’s good for it to be regulated and I don’t think people are just out there aborting babies like it’s a fun pastime, but ultimately - in my utopian vision for the world - I’d like to see no abortion. Instead as someone is presented with the crossroads where they would consider an abortion the community would help. If money was required, they’d help. If the baby needed parenting, we’d help. That there would be a personalised, tailored solution, involving community and family compromise that resulted in the baby being born and being loved. I’m aware that my utopia does not exist, but that’s just where I’d like to see society be. No need to @ me, I know that rape exists, there are medical quandaries, and sex protection doesn’t always work, but I’d really simply, almost blindly stupidly just love to see babies be born and be loved. It’s like a one in 400 billion chance that a baby would ever be born, I just don’t want to squander it.
So I have my utopian vision, and it’s about communities and families taking it upon themselves to care for and love the ones within. Of course Police and governance has its place, but we should take more responsibility in the home and in the community. If I see someone litter I call them out on it, and if they’re not there I pick the rubbish up and put it in the bin, that’s me.
So, back to the book.
The main problem I see with the book is that I don’t want my girls to pick it up, if I liked the books message, I would bring it to them. But the other problem in the story today is with the linking of the book and consent. It’s a long shot. Consent is important, should be deeply known, understood and respected by all people.
Chanel Contos, the founder of Teach us Consent, echoed those concerns. “Young people are learning about sex from pornography, which – a phrase I always use is that is basically like learning how to drive a car by watching Formula One,” Contos said.
If children are learning about sex from pornography - I’ll humbly admit that was my early “education”, not due to my own wants but a severe lack of parental input and presence (thanks mum and dad, didn’t mess me up at all) - the answer isn’t to put a children’s book about sex on shelves. Sure, make it available as a resource to parents who want to engage with that resource when they are ready to, but the gaping hole in Australian society today isn’t lack of resource, it’s leadership from parents, or as I like to call it: parenting.
Australians are parenting less and less. I can talk about this from my own experience, my mother walked out when I was five, my step-mother didn’t really like me, and my father worked often two to three jobs.
A former Channel V host should not have to parent my children, I don’t want Woolworths Group to parent my children, I want close to zero of the community group that identifies as politicians to parent my children, and regardless of education choices anyone makes the educators are not parenting our kids.
Parents need to parent. Families and communities need to step up. Parents are not the kids best mates. Parents are not caregivers or landlords. Parents are leaders, leading their kids from birth to greatness - of course that greatness does include a deep and loving understanding and respect of other people’s consent, and also an understanding of the concepts of sex, intercourse, dating, courting, etc.
We have a set of boundaries with our kids that we will not lie to them, we will not lead them astray, but we’ll also respect their need to play, rest, and learn at their speed.
I’ll let them learn about scissoring when their fragile-because-of-age minds can fully understand what it means. Not when they pick it up off a shelf in a book shop next to Paw Patrol.
I welcome resources like Welcome to Sex being made available as a resource for parents to introduce to children when they deem so, but please make a space in society for parents to parent their children in their own unique way. Don’t force our hands. We don’t live in a single-speed society. Our lives have a transmission, everyone’s driving at different speeds at different revs using different gears, on different roads, needing to operate at different gears. Making a book this graphic and forward available for my child to just to pick up isn’t the way.
Create space for parents to lead their children, and maybe they will?
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Dr Amy Thunig
Dr Amy Thunig is a Gomeroi/Gamilaroi/Kamilaroi yinarr academic who lives on the beautiful Awabakal Country. Amy is an Australian motivational speaker, author, influencer, activist and advocate for Indigenous rights, social justice, academia and education. Amy was diagnosed with autism in her 30s whilst in the process of her child being diagnosed. Amy experienced homelessness at high school but still made it to uni. Amy now has three degrees including a PhD. For Amy, diagnosis meant gaining a better understanding of her inner and outer worlds, and it led her to resources to support herself and be her true authentic self. In 2022 Amy wrote a book called "Tell Me Again" a memoir of her journey through childhood and adolescence and how her experiences shaped the person she is today.
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On October 30th 1959 Jim Mollison, died.
Born in Glasgow in 1905, Mollison learned to fly in the Royal Air Force in the early 1920s. When he joined the RAF, James Allan Mollison, aged eighteen years, was the youngest officer in the Service. That he should have begun his flying career with a record was characteristic of the man who was to create so many records in aviation.
After leaving the RAF Mollison went to Australia, not as an aviator, but as a bathing beach attendant. That he would have returned to aviation sooner or later was inevitable, but his decision to do so was hastened while he worked as a beach attendant.
One afternoon an aeroplane from the New South Wales Flying Club flew low over the water. Mollison had not flown since his RAF days, but the sight of that aeroplane and the noise of its engines reminded him that flying was the one thing in life he wanted to do. He gave out his last towel, organized his last bathing party and obtained a post as instructor to the South Australian Flying Club, at Adelaide.
He went on to fly for Australian National Airways, it was during this time he was introduced to a certain female passenger. She was the similarly famous, pioneering English aviatrix, Amy Johnson. Mollison proposed to Amy Johnson only eight hours after that meeting – while still airborne.
Mollison and Johnson were married in July, 1932 and the press dubbed them ‘The Flying Sweethearts’. Together, they went on to set several ‘joint’ records. Mollison a gambler and a heavy drinker and, as a consequence, his marriage to Amy Johnson became strained and they were divorced in 1938, after a mere six years of marriage.
Mollison married again, but later separated for the second time. His drinking continued to be a problem and, in 1953, the Civil Aviation Authority Medical Board revoked his flying license.
His second wife, Maria bought the Carisbrooke Hotel in Surbiton for him – a temperance hotel. He died on 30th October 1959, aged just 54.
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Bet You Didn't Think You Could Do That: Inspiring Stories of Overcoming Obstacles
Life is full of challenges and obstacles, but it's those who overcome them that truly shine. Many people believe that they are not capable of achieving their dreams or overcoming their struggles, but these inspiring stories prove otherwise.
1. Nick Vujicic - Born without limbs, Nick Vujicic is an Australian motivational speaker who travels the world inspiring others to live life to the fullest. He has written several books, including "Life Without Limits," and has been featured on numerous talk shows.
2. J.K. Rowling - Before becoming one of the world's most successful authors, J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother on welfare. She wrote the first "Harry Potter" book while living on government assistance and has since become a billionaire.
3. Wilma Rudolph - Despite being born premature and suffering from polio as a child, Wilma Rudolph went on to become an Olympic gold medalist in track and field. She was the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics.
4. Amy Purdy - After losing both of her legs to meningitis at the age of 19, Amy Purdy went on to become a professional snowboarder and a contestant on "Dancing with the Stars." She has also co-founded a non-profit organization to help people with disabilities pursue their dreams.
5. Malala Yousafzai - Shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls' education in Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai has become a global advocate for human rights and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate.
These five individuals are just a few examples of the countless people who have overcome significant obstacles to achieve success. Their stories serve as a reminder that anything is possible if you believe in yourself and work hard.
So the next time you find yourself facing a challenge, remember these inspiring stories and bet on yourself. You never know what you can achieve until you try.
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The forbidden game movie
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Your name is Alex, a newly hired janitor at the Hotel Dolphin, making your first night at his new night job, with the main objective of cleaning and organizing all the rooms for future guests, however. This begins an epic journey from Phoenix’s humble. When the hero of the game, Phoenix, seeks the counsel of a druid to make sense of his visions, she awakens the latent pyromancy within him.
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The master of the game, Julian, is none other than the salesman of the store where the so-called game was found.Īlthough the release date of the series is not yet known, the title search already allows for some brainstorming. An indie horror game that tells the story of a supposedly cursed room in a hotel called the Dolphin Hotel. Summary: The Forbidden Arts is an action adventure platformer with a focus on discovery and exploration. SMITH, Lisa Jane Smith, is the New York Times 1 Bestselling author of The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, The Forbidden Game, Dark Visions.
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Forget the poet hes a real Trevor Blue
Readings from the book, published by Allen & Unwin, will be broadcast on ABC National Radio next month.
Dr Clark blames British academics, possibly with the help of MI5 and the CIA, for “this organized program against Australia”.
What he revealed, he said, was the literary equivalent of getting the ashes back on English soil.
Currency, The Complete Book of Australian Verseincluding works by hitherto unknown poets such as Rabbi Burns, Arnold Wordsworth, Warren Keats, Amy Lou Dickinson, Walter Burley Yeats, Kahliji Bran, TS (Tabi Sirius) Eliot, Sir Don Bettjeman, DH Oding, Louis “The Lip” MacNeice, Dylan Thompson and Sylvia Plath.
Dr. Clarke said that some of the authors are related to well-known international poets with similar names. Ewen Coleridge, a plumber from Annandale who lived with Arnold Wordsworth, is not represented because his works, often written while undergoing one of the early methadone treatments, have been lost. However, Dr. Clark said, it was possible that some of Ewen’s work appeared under the name of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who smoked opium and wrote Crusted with an old navigator.
Arnold Wordsworth, now believed to have written Narcissus It represents most of the works attributed to William Wordsworth Lines formed midway across the Pyrmont Bridge:
Earth has nothing to show more fairness,
It will be soft, imperfectly resistant,
Who would willingly give up such an opinion,
For, behold, the bird breaks its wind.
And this whole joint doesn’t look so unpleasant,
Stand back, because when she goes, she goes bloody.
Dr. Clark noted that the works of writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare were not under challenge because white writers had only been in Australia for 200 years and blacks had no written culture.
However, fragments were found around Stratford, near Horsham, Victoria, for Trevor Shakespeare’s work, beginning with: “Will there be any point in my formal some sort of comparison between you and the author of the absolute?”
Why Australians emerged as the world’s greatest writers?
“The depth and splendor of Australian culture, the wit and imagination of Australian writing – and perhaps the brew.”
Why should the Australian revolution end in poetry? What about novels and dramas?
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“Of course. The history of Australian theater is littered with cobbled bits by less important people like Chekhov and Ibsen and other crooks from places like Scandinavia, where nothing can be verified, and Russia. Who knows what’s going on there?”
“We found this guy named Gavin Tolstoy in Darwin somewhere. He wrote 87 tons in just one book. Four container trucks she brings from Darwin. Puts war and peace in the shade.”
*John Clark says he completed his Ph.D. in Leipzig, and recently worked in the Department of Negative Reinforcement at Bond University, and on his own agrarian reform project. He is also known as Fred Dag, a comedian.
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On Structuring Plot: A List Of Useful Resources + My Recent Process
I was asked on Instagram last week how I go about structuring my stories, whether there’s a set way I like to do it, or if it’s different for every story, or what. I promised an answer last week, and that didn’t happen, but hey! It is this week and now I can answer! 😀
The truth of the matter is, I feel very self-conscious about plot structure. It’s the area of writing I’m least comfortable with, and so my attempts either end up with me just writing and ignoring structure entirely (A Fox Of Storms And Starlight), or else plotting everything else in meticulous detail, usually with the help of Liana Brooks (How Not To Acquire A Castle, as evidenced in our epic plotting video).
And then there is everything else, which tends to fall in the middle. Honestly, it depends on the book, and the mood, and how much of a concrete, specific handle I need on the story before going in.
Because that varies widely, too. When Worlds Collide, the final book in the Sanctuary trilogy that won Best Children’s Book 2019 in my state? You’re reading the first draft, prettied up with some proofreading for typos. The first book in the series, on the other hand? That’s the …eighth, I think, draft? And again, everything else falls somewhere in the middle, though generally speaking I plan my novels more than my short stories, and things that feel “fast paced” more than things that luxuriate more in the prose. Though even that’s not entirely true. And it overlaps with the length tendencies.
SO. Rather than continuing to ramble about my actual processes (variable), I thought I’d share with you a range of resources that you might find useful (if you’re a writer) or simply interesting (if you’re not, or even if you are I guess).
1. Liana Brooks’ Outlining Sheet
Liana, who you probably know is my writer-buddy and co-conspirator with regards to Inkprint Press, is excellent at plot. She does developmental edits for a really reasonable rate, and is absolutely stellar at what she does. So it’s without shame that I recommend first up her outline sheet, which is a take on the Lester Dent Plot Formula (google it).
2. Beat Sheets.
For when a general outline with key touch points isn’t detailed enough, there are beat sheets. The best ones I’ve found came from Jami Gold, and you can download them here. I’ve also converted them to word docs with scenes numbered for a 40-scene/chapter book and a 20 scene-chapter book, and you can grab those here (word docx download).
3. MICE Structure.
I posted this video on Friday, but Mary Robinette Kowal’s MICE theory has been hands down THE most useful plotting resource I’ve encountered for me personally. I’ll elaborate on this a little more below, where I’ll talk specifically about a project I’m working on right now.
4. Brandon Sanderson’s Plot Lectures.
I listened to these nearly a year ago, then relistened recently and was interested to discover I’d done something similar with Moon Shot, the project I’m currently plotting. Definitely worth a listen. It’s a little more general in scope than the preceding resources, but very necessary for a sound understanding of what your plot should be DOING.
You can also check out the posts I wrote on plot structure years ago, starting here.
Okay, now to the specifics. On Tuesday, I posted the following to Instagram, which is what precipitated the question that resulted in this post:
This is me working on Moon Shot, and it’s the first time I really used the MICE process on a longer work very deliberately, and I LOVED IT.
So I thought I’d quickly delineate for you here exactly what I did. (ETA: Quickly, ha.)
Worldbuilding. I had a giant conversation with Liana about the worldbuilding for the world, and how the main sci fi element works. She took notes and emailed them to me.
Brain Dump. I did a stream-of-consciousness dump into my notes just rambling through things roughly sequentially, and stopping to research the sciencey stuff I needed.
List Of Questions. From this, I listed out on my small whiteboard (A4-ish size) all the questions that would be asked and answered in this book. Will they escape? Why can’t they go to Earth? Who are the kidnappers? Etc.
MICE. I then colour-coded each question according to it’s MICE category: milieu, inquiry, character, event. If that doesn’t make sense, go watch Kowal’s video first (resource 3 above).
General Plotting. I broke out the bigger whiteboard (A2 size?), separated it roughly into quarters across the ‘page’, and added every question to the board. Some questions are asked right at the start of the story, so that’s where their coloured line started, then I estimated roughly when the question would be answered in-plot, and ended their coloured line there. This was hands-down the most useful part of plotting, because it let me see a bunch of things in macro: I’d overloaded the third quarter with too many answers, and there wasn’t enough in the second quarter. Certain questions COULDN’T be asked until other ones were answered, and if I left the answering too late, the next arc would be too squished before the end of the book. And so forth. So I played around, adjusting arcs until I got a fairly even spread of questions and answers across the book, with little clusters at the 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 marks. I also looked to make sure that I had enough strong questions asked in the beginning that weren’t answered until the very end.
Specific Plotting. For each arc, I now knew WHEN in the book it had to be. So I grabbed three A3 pages, taped them together in a long line, divided the page into 25 columns (see point 8 for why), and wrote headings with the basic beats of a story. Call to action, midpoint, final puzzle piece, act 2 antagonist, and so forth. See resource 2 above. Then I took my MICE arcs and started filling things in: this scene needs to answer this question and raise the next one. This scene needs to answer this question. That sort of thing. Not the specifics of what the characters are doing, but the underlying bones of what the SCENE needs to be doing.
Conflict! Once the beginnings and ends of each MICE arc were in place, I referred back to the MICE principle to figure out what kinds of conflict I needed to add. For example, one of the opening MICE arcs is a milieu question: How did the kids escape? Knowing that this is a milieu, I know I need to add points throughout the story where they run into dead ends in their attempts to escape, all the way until they actually make it out. Another MICE arc revolves around a mystery, so I knew I needed to throw red herrings and misleading information in there to influence the decisions the characters are making. I used different coloured highlighter to mark the main long-running arcs to make sure I was sprinkling them evenly throughout the book, and not accidentally ignoring one for too long.
Point Of View. I now had a really good idea of what was happening in each scene, so on to POV. Most books wouldn’t need this step necessarily, but part of the POINT of this book is that it has POV scenes from all 25 of my Year 8 students from a couple of years ago (you have not LIVED until you’ve tried this, oy, my head). AND on top of that, every character has one of eight different superpowers. So I wrote out all the character names on sticky notes, colour coded according to superpower. Then I played around. Which superpower would be useful in this scene? Which would lend an interesting lens to the events? Post-its meant I could test things and swap them around easily, until I got an order I was happy with, with the superpowers kind of evenly sprinkled throughout the book (as much as possible; they’re based on Myer-Briggs personality type, which, yes, most of the students were kind enough to do the test for me so I could allocate their powers accurately, HA, but it means some superpowers are more common than others).
Text Type. One of the only ways I could think of making this book hang together cohesively was to tell it via epistolary, which means including a bunch of other text types as well as narration (or instead of). So there are story bits, but also emails, letters, maps, interviews, transcripts and more. So once I had everything else in place, I figured out which scenes were going to be which text types so that again, there was a balance of them throughout.
PHEW. What a process. Still, overall it only took me about three hours, and it was SUPER FUN AND SATISFYING to do. I’ll DEFINITELY be doing at least steps 1 – 7 for a couple of future books, because it was just a really inherently enjoyable process for me, and makes me confident going into the book that the scenes will do what they need to do.
Here’s a sneaky peek at what some of the final outline looks like… 😀
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Went to this books book launch yesterday and it was lovely ♥︎ it was wonderful to meet Lili again along with Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman, readers and writer are such wonderful people
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