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The Summer Reading for MPs campaign aims to ‘illuminate discussion on the ghastly situation we have been watching unfold across the Middle East’.The Summer Reading for MPs campaign aims to ‘illuminate discussion on the ghastly situation we have been watching unfold across the Middle East’.
“The political debate in Australia and internationally rarely touches on the issues, events and historical analyses that these books reveal – despite their direct relevance to what is happening today,” the letter said. “It just occurred to me that if people were reading some of these books, people’s responses might be amped up a bit more,” he said.
Another of the originators, publisher Aviva Tuffield, emphasised the importance of reading for driving empathy and understanding and “shifting hearts and minds”.“The summer is for reading,” she said. “There’s well-known summer reading lists like Obama’s, and the Grattan Institute’s. It might be good for politicians who aren’t engaged and only get the talking points to do some reading .”
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