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Refugee Wolf (Paperback)
Helen Richardson; Illustrated by Roy Chen; Rod Morrison
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WARNING This is a dark and comedic, futuristic fairytale about the
terms of the asylum seeker and refugee debate in Australia. It
contains mild coarse language, biffo, beer, pork and a lot of hot
air. In this twisted allegory set in 2500 AD, Big Bad Ben, a
knockabout, larrikin refugee wolf, is on the run from the humans.
Why? Because he's eaten too many pigs. Big Bad Ben works for the
humans and he has to kill and eat mutant pigs from outta space. But
the humans turn on him and set him up and throw him in jail. Then,
there's trouble and discrimination. When he escapes from Earth on a
rusty space shuttle to the Planet of Sticks, the Planet of Straw
and the Planet of ... you guessed it - McSpaceMansions - he
encounters rejection at every turn by a money-hungry gang of pigs
that holds all the power. WE THE PIGGERRY INC., design a pill
called Excess and mix it into the drinking water. Every pig on
these planets is a glut and is on a constant high of warm and fuzzy
thoughts. The irony is that even if Big Bad Ben is granted refugee
status, the last planet which he travels to is broke and
disconnected. "This funny re-invention of The Three Little Pigs has
more obstacles in front of the poor refugee wolf than a hurdles
race. You will squirm with laughter as it is very unsettling." -
Bluey Smith, The Sacred Cow Times "This is an underwhelming tour de
farce. The author, a Vietnamese refugee, hasn't quite mastered
Aussie slang. He should go back to Slang School. But before that
happens, please get him to send me a case of beer and some
Vietnamese pork bread rolls for making me read through this
post-modern drivel. By the way, who doesn't love Vietnamese pork
bread rolls? Come to think of it, if it wasn't for
Vietnamese-Australians and their tucker, I'd have to eat humans." -
Hungry Internet Troll Refugee Wolf is written by a
Vietnamese-Aussie larrikin refugee who loves Vietnamese pork bread
rolls just as much as sausage rolls.
"This book is a guide for life written by two people that I respect
and revere. Together, Kate and Helen are the ultimate team. Now
they are sharing the lessons they have learned for the benefit of
all of us." From the foreword by CLARE BALDING THE INSIDE STORY OF
WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS In Winning Together,
Helen and Kate Richardson-Walsh, share powerful lessons from the
Great Britain women's hockey team journey to gold in Rio 2016. They
show how to create a winning culture in any environment, in any
industry, so that you and your teammates can thrive. Drawing on
their vast experience both in and out of sport, double Olympic
medalists Helen and Kate, tell the incredible, behind-the-scenes
story of how a team from the lower rankings forced its way to the
top. They bring you into their team huddle to reflect and work
through exercises to help improve your performance. Using their
individual and collective stories they demonstrate that successful
teams are made up of people who are valued as human beings and
supported to individually flourish. Covering connection, care,
awareness, empowerment, alignment, the power of difference and much
more, Winning Together gives you the tools to be the very best
version of yourself, and to build better teams. "Powerful ...
Essential reading for anyone that's part of a team." MATTHEW SYED,
bestselling author of REBEL IDEAS and YOU ARE AWESOME
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