Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey Get this in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for Five Great Reads here Good morning – I’m back with some more interesting reading for your weekend. Sometimes more than others, the world feels particularly disorientating. Maybe these pieces from around the Guardian this week will help you make sense of things, maybe they won’t – but they are all worth your time over a coffee. When the Scandies Rose left port in Alaska in December 2019 with an experienced crew and 7,000kg of bait, an icy storm was brewing. Rose George’s long read tells what happened to them – and why deep sea fishing is one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Why do so many people go without lifejackets? “It’s a cultural thing,” one former fisher tells George. “I remember when I first was fishing in the 1980s, I would go on boats and I would ask if they had an immersion suit [full-body survival suits designed for cold water], and one guy threw me off his boat for even asking the question. “Another example was somebody I asked where the life raft was, and he said we don’t talk about that on this boat. It’s like, if you talk about it, bad things will happen.” The former Liberal prime minister and current Cpac speaker and rightwing lobby group supporter Tony Abbott has a new book out, Australia: A History, complete with accompanying Sky News documentary. But Melbourne university professor Marcia Langton, a Yiman and Bidjara woman from Queensland, has questions: about the “half-truths” studding Abbott’s account of the debate on constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians; about his “deliberate and devious” recasting of Welcome to Country as divisive; about his playing down of the hundreds of massacres of Aboriginal people. Langton’s take: “Lifestyle Choices would be a more accurate title for this purported defence of democracy, one that does not include Indigenous Australia in any meaningful way. It is intended to become the style manual for the March for Australia types, providing them with a thesaurus of terms and factoids to defend their Dad’s Army version of our nation.”