{"id":911,"date":"2014-05-26T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T04:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2014-05-26T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T04:20:32","slug":"monday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/05\/monday-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"

The simple act of going into a bookshop and buying an Australian novel is now radical. The slightly more demanding act of reading that novel is political. This is a good in itself. This\u00a0makes\u00a0<\/i>the work good. It stimulates the economy, not to mention your intellect and capacity for empathy. It also provides writers, editors and publishers with the means to continue doing what they do. Most importantly, it stimulates a conversation, creates a context in which other Australian novels can live. That is, it creates a culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

– Adam Ouston, Daily Review<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This stuff is golden<\/em>, if you don’t mind me saying.<\/p>\n

There’s been a lot of discussion around the place recently of civic duty, in the wake of the Budget announcement a couple of weeks ago. How to actively engage and participate with this ol’ society of ours?\u00a0How to be a part of the bigger conversation? The ‘F**k Tony Abbott’ t-shirts going around at the moment, as satisfying as they may be, do not an engaged discourse make. David Ouston from the Daily Review<\/a>\u00a0has a good solution, though, and one that we here at WP can heartily endorse: buy more Aussie books! Read the piece here<\/a>. Buy the books here<\/a> (of course).<\/p>\n

Next, a short and topical video for your Monday kicks:<\/span><\/p>\n