The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
The Forgotten People: Liberal and conservative approaches to recognising indigenous peoples by Damien Freeman, Shireen Morris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
" The Forgotten Peoplechallenges the assumption that constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians is a project of the left in Australia. It demonstrates that there may be a set of reforms that can achieve the change sought by indigenous leaders, while addressing the critical concerns of consti ...Show more
Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution by ARROW, MICHELLE
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.The Whitlam government of 1972–75 appointed a women’s advisor to national government — a world first — and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for wome ...Show more
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Politics
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
I Call Myself a Feminist - The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty by Victoria Pepe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them. We hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati (an eighteen-year-old activist), ...Show more
Stop at Nothing - The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In Stop at Nothing Annabel Crabb brings all her wit and perceptiveness to the story of Malcolm Turnbull. This is a memorable look at the Prime Minister in action - his flaws and achievements - as well as his past lives and adventures. Drawing on extensive interviews with Turnbull, Crabb delves into ...Show more
Windsor's Way (Updated Edition) by Tony Windsor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Traitor or saviour? Tony Windsor has been called both in his 22-year political career, but never more often than when he supported Julia Gillard's government in 2010. And now he's back. After three years in retirement, Tony Windsor refuses to stand by and watch regional Australia relegated to being take ...Show more
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson, Patricia Drum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their fascination with the brutal RudduGillard struggle as enduring as the saga itself. This is the book that brings you the uncut version of The Killing Season, taking you behind the cameras to reveal the untold stories and candid moments that ...Show more
I Find That Offensive! by Claire Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When you hear that now ubiquitous phrase 'I find that offensive', you know you're being told to shut up. While the terrible murder of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists demonstrated that those who offend can face the most brutal form of censorship, there's a broader threatening climate where we all have to w ...Show more
In Search of Good Government: Great Expectations & Political Amnesia by Laura Tingle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
With the politics of rage and resentment dominating many Western nations, including Australia, Laura Tingle's calm, perceptive analysis is more relevant than ever. What has happened to good government? Can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past to put things right? When leaders surf the wave of ...Show more
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way by Steve Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Something strange has been happening. All over the World, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls in America. Corbyn promises a new socialism in the UK. Tsipras in Greece. Podemos in Spain. Marine Le Pen in France. Norbert Hofer in A ...Show more
Republican Party Reptile by P. J. O'Rourke
$32.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Confessions, Adventures, Essays, And (other) Outrages of P. J. O'rourke, this is the first collection of wildly humorous essays from the former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon.