Also in this week’s reviews of fiction and non-fiction: A Jewish millennial struggles to meet the expectations of her parents, and an incisive and moving essay on the NDIS.
offers an intense historical novel based on the early life of the openly lesbian diarist and businesswoman Anne Lister, who was also the inspiration for the BBC seriesThe author focuses on the real-life boarding-school romance between Lister and Eliza Raine, the illegitimate daughter of an English father and an Indian mother.
The scheme, implemented by the Gillard government, was a world first. Not welfare but a form of insurance against the costs and exclusions of a major disability. Drawing on her own experience as a lawyer, writer and someone with a disability, Lee shows why a purely market-based system is inadequate to the task of responding to complex needs and to social exclusion.
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