Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation: Quarterly Essay 73 by Rebecca Huntley
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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
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
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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
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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
Blood Lust , Trust & Blame by Samantha Crompvoets
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Category: #Auspol | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
As Australia comes to grips with accusations that some of its elite soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan, a catchcry for certain commentators is that the 'fog of war' explains, justifies and possibly excuses the alleged atrocities that have come to light. The term seeks to capture the uncertaint ...Show more
Breaking Point: The Future of Australian Cities by Peter Seamer
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Category: Non-Fiction
The way we plan and build cities in Australia needs to change. Australia's population is growing- between 2017 and 2046 it is projected to increase by 11.8 million, the equivalent of adding a city the size of Canberra each year for thirty years. Most of this growth will occur in the major cities, and ...Show more
Carbon Justice: The scandal of Australia’s biggest contribution to climate change by Jeremy Moss
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Category: #Auspol
A leading political philosopher takes on Australia’s biggest carbon emitters and their moral responsibilities.It’s a shocking fact: the emissions produced annually from the fossil fuels extracted by Australia’s major gas, coal and oil producers — Glencore, BHP Yancoal, Peabody, Whitehaven and Anglo-Amer ...Show more
Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power by Joel Deane
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Category: #Auspol
Power is the only measure of a politician that matters. How they win power. How they wield power. How they lose power. Catch and Kill is an inside account of the beguiling and nomadic nature of the unholy trinity of politics - the winning, the wielding, the losing. Taking us into the inner sanctum of st ...Show more
Cathy Goes to Canberra - Doing Politics Differently by Cathy McGowan
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Category: #Auspol | Series: Biography Ser.
Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and again in 2016 and passed Indi on to ...Show more
ChinaPhobia: A Wasted Opportunity by Karim Alwadi, Mohammad Kheir Alwadi
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Category: #Auspol
How can we prevent the growing ChinaPhobia phenomenon from turning competition into mutually destructive conflict?ChinaPhobia - A Wasted Opportunity is an informative book, unbiased towards either China or America. It has been written in the form of a conversation between a father-a former journalist an ...Show more
Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn
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Category: Memoir & Biography
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.
Consent of the People: Human Dignity through Freedom and Equality 1966-2022 by David Kemp
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Category: #Auspol | Series: Australian Liberalism Ser.
David Kemp's masterly account of the story of Australian liberalism after MenziesConsent of the People- Human Dignity through Freedom and Equality 1966-2021 explores how Australia's founding Enlightenment ideals were embodied in democratic institutions and shared values, and shaped into a unique nationa ...Show more
Easy Lies & Influence (In the National Interest) by Fiona McLeod
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Category: #Auspol | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Grift and stacking are commonplace as those chasing influence infiltrat ...Show more