Australian Gulag

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Tom McKinnon, is SAS Specialist Sniper, a veteran of Afghanistan. But extreme violence and collateral damage have worn him down, so that by the time he returns to his native Broome, he cannot settle and takes his Post-traumatic Stress Disorder to a shack on a secluded Kimberley beach. There, he spends his days diving for oysters. 
With his dog as his only companion and minimal contact with the outside world, he finds peace of sorts. But following a storm, his dog discovers a young woman on his beach, more dead than alive, forcing him to be up close and personal with another human being.
The Wet Season keeps him marooned as he nurses her back to health and for three months she challenges his prejudices, insisting on helping with his diving work. He is forced to recognise her competence as she becomes his uninvited partner. 
Then, as the months tick past, she comes to love this aloof but gentle man and he grudgingly admits and then admires her attributes. Eventually, she comes to his bed, instinctively understanding his hurt and his need. 
Still he refuses to admit his own growing feelings and it is not until she has gone (having finally handed her over to the authorities) that he realises he loves her and will do all he can to get her back. By then, however, she has disappeared into the labyrinth of detention centres: first Villawood then Nauru and Manus Island. 
As a woman alone, she is fair game to some, and a threat to others. Through the occasional act of kindness, she is able to leave messages and a trail for Tom that brings him close enough for her to know he cares. But doors that might have opened remain closed, even as his actions take him up to then beyond the limit of the law.
Australian Gulag is a story of our times. It takes us where people should never have to go and shows us that when we get behind the barbed wire, there is still love and compassion, even in the unlikeliest hearts and places.

Cull

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A white knuckle ride of a political thriller is too real for comfort. Harry Fromm, career diplomat, takes us into the murky world of realpolitik, where a deal is done to ‘manage population reduction’ by nuking three billion people. A thousand warheads are minutes from target and Harry, the only person who can stop them, is in jail.  

Originally conceived as a play set in The White House, this political thriller sees Harry Fromm face a dreadful dilemma: solve two of the biggest problems facing humanity but do so by betraying humanity.

Harry Fromm’s life’s work as an ambassador has been dedicated to finding peaceful solutions to political conflict. But he finds himself party to an international conspiracy to solve the twin problems of overpopulation and climate change by culling half the world’s population.

When Harry loses the confidence of the conspirators, they decide he must be killed and he is pursued by the CIA across the US and into Canada.. His wife Felicity and his daughter Sam are also threatened, but are whisked into hiding by his Russian friend Yuri.

When Harry and Yuri are arrested by Canadian Police, the violent deaths, of more than three billion people seems inevitable

Are We Planet B 

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Julia Porteous leads a team of young Australian scientists taking samples from Antarctic ice, investigating ancient climate change.

In an ice core taken from the five-million-year level, they find modern human remains under a polycarbonate dome.

Her boss, Stan Nightingale, is reluctant to give the findings credibility, but nevertheless, funds the building of a lift to access the dome and further examine the human remains.

Inside the dome, Julia becomes infected by a bacteria that appears to share DNA with one brought back by a NASA Mars probe.

Jim Somerville, Stan’s American colleague’s attempt to compare the bacteria samples draws the attention of Hiram Caxton, rogue CIA Director, who has Sommerville arrested and tortured.

Caxton learns enough to have the dig sabotaged to protect the re-election prospects of his fundamental Christian president, who needs the votes of those who believe in Adam and Eve and a ten-thousand-year-old universe.

Agents sent by Caxton disable the lift, trapping the Australian team under the ice, where they will die unless rescued quickly. But it is winter in Antarctica where nothing moves except the wind.