The Accidental Prime Minister by Annika Smethurst
$39.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Nine months after the spill that catapulted him to the prime ministership, Scott Morrison won the 2019 election, shocking politicians and political pundits (and, quite possibly, himself). Yet, unlike his predecessors, little was really known about the former marketing man whose hard-nosed political inst ...Show more
The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Winner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012.The book of the TV series Making Australia Great.'This man is perhaps the sanest journalist in Australia. He believes in facts and figures. He has a unique grasp of politics in ...Show more
The Big Teal by Simon Holmes à Court
$19.95 AUD
Category: #Auspol | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The May 2022 election marked the great re-engagement of those ignored and patronised for too long on climate, integrity and gender equity. The electoral map has been dramatically redrawn. However, the triumph of the 'teals' was not entirely unexpected to those assisting their rise, such as Climate 200 f ...Show more
The Careless State: Reforming Australia's Social Services by Mark Considine
$34.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred model of reform has failed to adapt and improve.In t ...Show more
The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems by Sarah Maddison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy - from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition - government policies and programs have made little positive diffe ...Show more
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers by Mungo MacCallum
$32.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Since 1901, thirty different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing. Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the G ...Show more
The Indi Way: how a rural community sparked a social and political movement by Voices for Indi
$36.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
A behind-the-scenes account of how a rural community found its own voice, elected its own independent representatives, and inspired a national movement that is transforming Australian politics. Twelve people met for the first time at their local library in the rural and regional electorate of Indi in n ...Show more
The Making and Unmaking of East-West Link by James C Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
The definitive account of a hotly debated political project in MelbourneMelbourne's aborted East-West Link - the massive, multi-billion-dollar inner-city toll road project that promised to knit Melbourne closer together - was stymied from the start. Intense picketing and protests, multiple court challen ...Show more
The Mess We're In - How Politics Went to Hell and Dragged Us with It by Bernard Keane
$32.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
'A powerful and occasionally polemical appeal to reason in politics; if you're despairing in search of an antidote to the poison of "alternative facts", here's your book. Like any good political text, there's something here to offend everyone. You'll want to cheer, high-five and occasionally shout your ...Show more
The Palace Letters: The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam by Professor Jenny Hocking
$32.99 AUD
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What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told? Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the lett ...Show more
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning by Stuart Macintyre
$49.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia. Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influen ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more