Cathy Goes to Canberra - Doing Politics Differently by Cathy McGowan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Biography Ser.
Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and again in 2016 and passed Indi on to ...Show more
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties by Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Sixties -- an era of protest,free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white footage -- marked a turning point for change. A time when radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was ...Show more
The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia by Andrew Scott, Rod Campbell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How the Nordic approach can shape Australia's future for betterClimate and energy. Work/life balance. Mining taxes. Progress on policy issues like these is essential, and yet they have become subject to the most rancorous partisanship, the precipitation of culture wars, and have brought down governments ...Show more
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES Editors' ChoiceFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America's retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theor ...Show more
Morrison's Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: How a beginner reshaped Australian foreign policy by Paul Kelly
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges- an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by maki ...Show more
Keeping Them Honest: the case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms by Stephen Charles QC AO Charles, Catherine Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A revealing and compelling case by Australia's foremost integrity advocate for a strong national body to expose political corruption, uphold accountability, and restore trust - and why the country needs it now. Over the last few years, instances of the federal government spending taxpayers' money to ga ...Show more
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On the West by Catherine Belton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
ASunday Timesbestseller | ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' ChoiceNamed a best book of the year byThe Economist|Financial Times |New Statesman | TheTelegraph"[Putin's People]will surely now become the definitive account of the rise of Putin and Putinism."--Anne Applebaum,The Atlantic"This riveting, im ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War; Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America by Hugh White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Is the US-Australia alliance now based on a fantasy? In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia's fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position - what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? White considers t ...Show more
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister
$21.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
"I'm a barrister, a job which requires the skills of a social worker, relationship counsellor, arm-twister, hostage negotiator, named driver, bus fare-provider, accountant, suicide watchman, coffee-supplier, surrogate parent and, on one memorable occasion, whatever the official term is for someone taske ...Show more
Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise by Niki Savva
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie Oakes Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Austra ...Show more
The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It by Owen Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
In The Establishment Owen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting critique of the British Establishment and a passionate plea for democracy. Behind our democracy lurks a powerful but unaccountable network of people who wield massive power and reap huge profits in the process ...Show more
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
$16.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means. 'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people f ...Show more