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COLLINS, Michael

Apr 29, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Business, Debora Souza

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The Friendly Takeover

 

How artificial influence is automating leadership

As AI quietly takes over management and begins to simulate leadership, the real risk isn’t machines replacing people: it’s influence without accountability.

Algorithms already schedule work, monitor performance, and shape careers. Now AI is beginning to simulate care, trust, and influence, ushering in hyper-automated leadership. The Friendly Takeover explains how automation reshapes control, agency, and culture, and why outcomes depend less on the tech than on governance and incentives.

Setting aside the tools and hype of the new AI world, businesses now need to look at how automated management and “friendly” AI can reshape trust and agency at work. With The Friendly Takeover, executives and HR leaders will learn responsible leadership with our five leadership paradoxes:

1. Control and commitment
2. Precision and connection
3. Agency and automation
4. Freedom and constraint
5. Private gain and public cost

Written for senior leaders and decision-makers who are navigating algorithmic management, workforce analytics, and automation, The Friendly Takeover will provide your workplace with a practical framework for balancing efficiency, accountability, and human agency in increasingly automated workplaces.

DOERING, Samuel

Apr 14, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Debora Souza, Designers, Family History, Historical Fiction, History

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There’s a Point to it

 

A History of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Point Pass, 1876-2026

For 150 years, Immanuel Lutheran Church at Point Pass has stood at the heart of faith, learning, and community in South Australia.

Founded in 1876, Immanuel shaped generations through worship, education, and service, giving rise to Immanuel College and influencing Lutheran life far beyond its rural setting.

Drawing on new research, this book traces the congregation’s journey through settlement, division and reunion, war, pastoral change, and renewal. It tells a deeply human story of faith lived ‘under the shadow of the belltower,’ and off ers a lasting tribute
to a congregation whose proud legacy continues to endure.

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SAMUEL DOERING IS an award-winning South Australian historian, author, and public speaker. A graduate of the New College of the Humanities, London, he is President of the Professional Historians Association of South Australia and works as a researcher and historian at Anlaby Station. He was the 2024 History Council of SA Emerging Historian of the Year and is currently undertaking a PhD at Flinders University.

KUBE, Amanda Hollis

Apr 7, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Debora Souza, Poetry

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The sweetness of dust

‘I guess it’s not surprising. As the living get quieter, the dead get louder.’

In her debut poetry collection The sweetness of dust, Amanda Kube explores what it feels like to close the book on a five generation Wimmera-Mallee farm. Moving deftly between shifts in time and perspective Kube draws us into daily life, where forebears are never far – ‘a glimpse, a shadow, disappearing around the corner’ – providing solace and admonishment.

More tender confessional than outback yarn, Kube’s gaze is wide open; embodied and lyrical. The women of this place step forward and tell stories of loneliness, isolation, and endless chores that sit alongside moments of quiet revelation. The farm always the central, nameless character – both cradle and constraint – connecting this restless family to Wotjobaluk presence. Walk with Adelene who has gone before. She circles the farm, still feeling the gravitational pull to place, with some things on her mind.

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Amanda Kube is an educator who has spent most of her life in rural and remote Australia. She has qualifications in primary education, teaching English to speakers of other languages, and remedial massage. She is a volunteer fossil preparator at Eromanga Natural History Museum and can make a decent salad from whatever is left in the bottom of the fridge. This is her first poetry collection, centred around the years she lived on a family farm on Wotjobaluk land. Amanda now lives on Dja Dja Wurrung land in central Victoria.

MALCOLM, Rob

Feb 12, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Business, Debora Souza

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Adapt, Survive and Flourish

 

A guide to building a sustainable future

In an era of escalating complexity and uncertainty, Adapt, Survive and Flourish offers both a compelling story and a practical guide for organisational transformation.

At its heart lies the fictional Tuesday Night Survivors Club — a group of retired professionals who combine their diverse experience with fresh insights from regenerative agriculture, enterprise architecture, and systems thinking.

The book is divided into two parts. The first is a narrative case study in which the club mentors a struggling nutraceutical company while engaging a new generation of university students. Through rich dialogue and evolving relationships, they explore leadership, adaptive capacity, social and human capital, and the development of sustainable practices.

The second part distils their insights into structured practitioner guidelines. These cover areas such as vision and purpose, stakeholder engagement, knowledge management, systems thinking, capability modelling, and visual communication — forming a toolkit for those leading transformation in business, government, and community settings.

Adapt, Survive and Flourish is a powerful invitation to rethink how we lead, learn, and collaborate — and to rediscover the value of lived wisdom, purpose-driven design, and regenerative action

ROSEL, John

Nov 24, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Keely McKinnon

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The Ballad of Jimmy O’Reilly

 

It’s hard to make believe every day. I’m thinking about that a lot today. I suppose turning 100 will do that to a man.

But I have a secret, an inspiration, a guiding hand, and it’s been with me since the tragedy that fell across my path when I was 12 years old. It has always been there, like a person behind a sheer curtain blowing in the wind, never distinct and always on the verge of disappearing.

It’s a story that has shaped my being, who I am, who I believe I am at least, and has given me the confidence to try, and the strength to carry on, when the path seemed lost. It is a story of reality, a story that proves that we don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are.

Perhaps it’s time to tell that story …

MURRAY, James a

Sep 26, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Keely McKinnon, Philosophy, Social Sciences \ Politics \ Government

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The Decline and Fall of Judeo-Christian Civilisation

 

 

What happens when the values that once held a culture together crumble to dust? In this uncompromising collection, Murray turns a sharp eye to the fractures of modern life.

The Decline and Fall of Judeo- Christian Civilisation is a collection of essays offering an intimate and critical exploration of contemporary society, framed through the author’s personal experiences and        reflections, and his enduring connection to the Australian bush.

Forthright, engaging, intriguing, no-holds-barred, delving into embroilments with family, friends and neighbours, with societal norms and environmental degradation, Murray paints a penetrating portrait of a civilisation in dire decline.

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JAMES A MURRAY WAS born in Melbourne and grew up in Queensland, the great-grandson of Irish, Scottish, and Cornish migrants who settled in Australia in the midnineteenth century.

Over the years, his passions have included music, bushwalking, and raising his two children.

Now living in solitude in a remote corner of the Northern Territory, he spends his days writing and playing online chess.