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"COLOURS OF THE SUNSHINE COAST"
Queensland's Sunshine Coast is blessed with natural wonders and breathtaking scenery. This new book by Tony is a celebration of the region, which stretches from the Glasshouse Mountains to the Cooloola section of the Great Sandy National Park. Favorite tourist destinations of Noosa Heads, Maroochydore, Mooloolaba and Caloundra are represented along with their surrounding districts. Beaches, mountains, lakes, rivers, hinterland, human activities and wildlife are all superbly captured in this full-colour 96 page hard-cover book.
Colours of the Sunshine Coast is published by Beaut Books, and retails for $29.95. Copies can be ordered by going to
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In 2007, Tony released his book "COLOURS OF NOOSA: a personal celebration of an exceptional bit of planet."
Noosa’s beaches, bush, waterways and wildlife are revealed in all their glory in this magnificent full-colour photographic book. Wellington has turned his passion for the region into a superb 88 page visual tone poem. As well as taking all the photographs in the book, he has also written the text and drawn some beautiful illustrations.
To see more of this book, please go to the Beaut Books website - www.beautbooks.info
Colours of Noosa is published by Beaut Books, and retails for $24.95. Copies can be ordered by going to
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"HAPPY? - exposing the cultural myths about happiness".
We live under a tyranny of happiness. Politicians, celebrities, advertisers, personal growth gurus - and now even Positive Psychologists - insist that we can each achieve greater happiness. But can we?
To find out, Tony has considered masses of empirical studies from around the world. He has also interviewed a wide range of notable Australians including Rev. Tim Costello, Rolf Harris, Richard Eckersley, Bill Leak, Bettina Arndt and Dr Caroline West.
Of course everyone wants to be happy. Accordingly, we are inclined to accept at least some of the culturally-ordained avenues to achieve that blessed state. These include an ever-increasing standard of living; greater personal wealth; achieving fame; finding true love; embracing religious or spiritual beliefs; engaging with family and community; and such popular prescriptions as effective goal setting, reducing stress and raising self-esteem.
So which, if any, of these paths can actually increase our happiness in any lasting or substantial way?
The conclusions the book draws challenge our understanding of happiness and turn many cultural myths upside down.
This is a provocative, highly-readable and thoroughly entertaining examination of our culture and the way it influences us.
HAPPY? is published by Beaut Books (www.beautbooks.info), and distributed by Tower Books.
"Tony Wellington should be congratulated for having the courage to stand up to just about every dominant, mainstream and ultimately forceful ideology in Western society about what should be making us happy and why."
- Emma Rodgers, The Courier-Mail
"Pursuing happiness has become a Western obsession and Wellington's criticisms of the quick fixes pushed by the rapture pimps (fame, self-esteem, romance, religion and shopping) are timely."
- Emma Tom, The Australian Literary Review
"The book is interesting and enlightening, particularly in pointing out that what makes us deeply content is a sense of belonging - something that is sadly lacking in the rush-rush modern world."
- Jane Fynes-Clinton, Salt
Happy? is published by Beaut Books, and retails for $24.95. Copies can be ordered by going to
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Tony was the instigator and co-author with John Shand of the book "DON'T SHOOT THE BEST BOY! - the film crew at work".
This book details the film-making process from the Australian perspective, incorporating interviews with 27 Australian film craftspeople. Published by Currency Press in 1988, the book is now out of print.
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Tony has also written for Australian Jazz Magazine and the subsequent Australian Jazz and Blues Magazine. He was a contributor to "Themes and Issues - The Family", published by Oxford University Press in 1990. He has had articles published in Filmnews, Australian Artist, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Courier Mail.