China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order by Geoff Raby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Disruption has blown the old world apart. The rise of China, Trump's America First policies, division within Europe and successful defiance by authoritarian states are affecting the shape of the emerging new order. Human rights, rule of law, free media and longstanding global institutions all seem set t ...Show more
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev; Jessica Spengler (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The President of the United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established political institution ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand by Laura Tingle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In a tumultuous year, Australia and New Zealand have never been closer, as we move towards a shared travel zone. But why, despite being so close, do we seem to know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at lea ...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
Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense by Richard Denniss
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Economics is like a tyre lever- it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.'What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevit ...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
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
Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country by Wade Shephard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 1) by Robert A Caro
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
'The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The TimesRobert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon Johnson is a uniquely riveting and revelatory account of power, political genius and the shaping of twen ...Show more
Buying and Selling the Poor: Inside Australia's privatised welfare-to-work market by Siobhan O'Sullivan, Michael McGann, Mark Considine
$40.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Public and Social Policy Ser.
Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically importa ...Show more
Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader by MATTHEW QVORTUP
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'An excellent book.' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times 'A biography that reads like an Icelandic saga.' - The Times The definitive UPDATED biography of perhaps the most respected political figure in the world fully updated to within a month of publication. Matthew Qvortrup's definitive and insightful biogr ...Show more
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