On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis
$16.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol | Series: On Ser.
What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her story ripped the curtain back not just on political ...Show more
Our Voices From The Heart by Patricia Anderson AO, Professor Megan Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itse ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
Remote as Ever: The Aboriginal Struggle for Autonomy in Australia's Western Desert by David Scrimgeour
$39.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
In Remote as Ever, David Scrimgeour tells the story of his working life as a doctor in isolated communities in Australia's Western Desert in the late 1970s. Being involved in the Homelands movement and the Aboriginal community-controlled health campaign gave him significant insight into the strength of ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating by Russell Marks
$14.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating - at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best. Paul lets rip - on John Howard- 'The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.' On Peter Costello- 'The thing about poor old Costello is he is ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
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
A Liberal State: How Australians Chose Liberalism over Socialism 1926-1966 by David Kemp
$59.99 AUD
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A Liberal State- How Australians Chose Liberalism over Socialism 1926-1966 explores the revival of Australian political liberalism after the Great Depression of the 1930s and its sweeping domestic political triumph after World War II over utopian socialism. The fourth title in a landmark five-volume Au ...Show more
A New Work Relations Architecture by Australian Institute of Employment Rights
$40.00 AUD
Category: #Auspol
These times of climate crisis, digital disruption, growing inequality and economic uncertainty call for a bold new vision of work relations in Australia. A New Work Architecture draws on years of research by some of Australia's leading work relations experts and practitioners in academia, business and ...Show more
A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson, Shireen Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Soon we will all decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the Constitution. In this essential book, several leading writers and thinkers provide a road map to recognition. Starting with the Uluru Statement from the Heart, these eloquent essays show what constitutional recognition m ...Show more
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
$34.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more
Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren
$29.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices will fall while the lights stay on. Debate is reduced to two equally preposterous narratives: coal-fired, climate chan ...Show more