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From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting PB by Judith Brett

$29.99 AUD

It's compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stat ...Show more

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You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright

$49.99 AUD

Category: History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.

For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--thro ...Show more

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Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley

$22.99 AUD

Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.

For some time, a majority of Australians have been saying they want change - on climate and energy, on housing and inequality, on corporate donations and their corrupting effect on democracy, to name just a few.Recent attention has focused on the angry, reactionary minority. But is there a progressive c ...Show more

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Trigger Warnings, Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right by Jeff Sparrow

$29.99 AUD

Category: Books by Neighbours

The man lives, quite literally, in a building serviced by a golden elevator. Somehow, he presented himself as the scourge of the elites. For decades, he built a persona based on the most conspicuous consumption and the crassest of excess - and then he won the presidency on an antiestablishment ticket. T ...Show more

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Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia by Dominic Kelly

$32.99 AUD

Category: Politics

Political history at its best. This is the story of the hard right in Australia - of how Ray Evans and his boss at Western Mining Corporation, Hugh Morgan, became the pioneers of a new form of right-wing politics whose forceful reshaping of public debates transformed Australian politics. With a calm ga ...Show more

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Rise of the Right by Greg Barns

$24.99 AUD

Category: #Auspol

To most of us, liberal values mean respect for openness, progress, tolerance and the rule of law. But in Australia, these values are increasingly under threat. It is not just on the fringes of our community or body politic that we find liberal values challenged. The decline of liberal values in thi ...Show more

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The Colonial Fantasy 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

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Rusted Off: Why Country Australia Is Fed Up by Gabrielle Chan

$34.99 AUD

Category: Politics

Telling the story of Australia as it is today, Gabrielle Chan has gone hyper-local. In Rusted Off,she looks to her own rural community?s main street for answers to the big questions driving voters. Why are we so fed up with politics? Why are formerly rusted-on country voters deserting major parties in g ...Show more

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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 politic ...Show more

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A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson

$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 ...Show more

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The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed their own Government by Niki Savva

$24.99 AUD

Category: Politics

'There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.' -Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015 Abbott's performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. He sounded desperate, he was inconsistent, and -?his colleagues thought?-?slightly ridicul ...Show more

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Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren

$29.99 AUD

Category: #Auspol | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction

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 ...Show more

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From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting PB by Judith Brett

$29.99 AUD

You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright

$49.99 AUD

Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley

$22.99 AUD

Trigger Warnings, Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right by Jeff Sparrow

$29.99 AUD

Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia by Dominic Kelly

$32.99 AUD

Rise of the Right by Greg Barns

$24.99 AUD

The Colonial Fantasy by Sarah Maddison

$34.99 AUD

Rusted Off: Why Country Australia Is Fed Up by Gabrielle Chan

$34.99 AUD

The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis

$24.99 AUD

A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson

$27.99 AUD

The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed their own Government by Niki Savva

$24.99 AUD

Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren

$29.99 AUD

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