Slick by Royce Kurmelovs

Slick by Royce KurmelovsSLICK: Australia's toxic relationship with Big Oil takes a comprehensive look at the origins of the Australian petroleum industry, investigating what these companies knew about climate change and how they learned to wield influence and insert themselves into all facets of public life. Royce Kurmelovs reveals how the US petroleum industry was warned about its environmental impacts back in the 1950s and yet went on to build the Australian oil industry,

rather than those of commerce and politics

Our nation's beginnings are steeped in the strange

A handy distance grid

It's how she's survived

All as civil war looms over the fragile country

He found that along with the drugs' massive benefits come twelve significant potential risks

offering a no-holds-barred reflection on how the monocultural

Battling outdated legislation and a medical culture of silence

His crewmates dead

These compelling essays begin to unearth the connections and historical moments that draw Indigenous curatorial practices together and the differences that set them apart

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Critic Swallows Book brings together twenty-two essays that together demonstrate the eclecticism of the Sydney Review of Books