Who Needs the ABC? Why Taking It For Granted is No Longer An Option by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. Its staffing levels have been cut. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with a succession of political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercia ...Show more
China Panic: Australia's Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering by David Brophy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When he visited Australia in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping said there was an 'ocean of goodwill' between our country and his. Since then that ocean has shown dramatic signs of freezing over. Australia is in the grip of a China Panic. How did we get here and what's the way out?We hear, weekly, alarm ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
Adults In The Room - My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
*** 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) ***What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famouseconomist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power.Varoufak ...Show more
On Fire: the Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
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Category: Politics
The fight for a green world is the fight of our lives. And with On Fire, Naomi Klein gives us the ammunition to do it. In frank, personal terms, she shows us how the only way forward out of a polluted world of our own making is only through policy reform - a concrete set of actions to combat the mountin ...Show more
Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future by Peter Hartcher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
China is a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions when it comes to Australia? And what lies behind the recent chill in relations between the two countries? In this gripping book, Peter Hartcher shows how Australia woke up to China's c ...Show more
A Decade of Drift (In the National Interest) by Martin Parkinson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in climate change policy over the past decade contributed to this in Australia? As a senior public servant during six prime ministerships, Martin Parkinson had a ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$59.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament A political journey through turbulent times Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a pol ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 88: Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics by Katharine Murphy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A portrait of a leader in the making, and a nation on the move. In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion - a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation. Are Albanese and his party up for change? Are Australians u ...Show more
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by David Shaw, Maja Gopel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout ...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