Fortune's Fool: Australia's Choices by Satyajit Das
$19.95 AUD
Category: #Auspol | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Australia’s prosperity relies on the continent’s extraordinary natural — primarily mineral — riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical and societal pressures now threaten the nation’s high living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of many trials to come. La ...Show more
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (TP) by Judith Brett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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
Hoodwinked: How Pauline Hanson Fooled a Nation by Kerry-Anne Walsh
$7.50 AUD
$29.99 (74% off)
Category: #Auspol
Pauline Hanson claims to represent the average Australian but The Stalking of Julia Gillard's Kerry-Anne Walsh has discovered nothing could be further from the truth.
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disas ...Show more
I, Millennial: One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else by Tom Ballard
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Category: #Auspol
After 30 years of his entitled Millennial life and one buy-now-pay-later pandemic, comedian Tom Ballard has had enough of the smashed avocado jokes. He's furious at the raw deal his (and every subsequent) generation has been given, and he's pretty sure things can't be this crappy because of brunch. In h ...Show more
Independents' Day: The inside story of the community independents and volunteers who changed Australian politics forever by Brook Turner
$34.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
The full story of the independent candidates and community volunteers stormed previously safe Liberal seats at the 2022 federal election and created a revolution in Australian politics. As Australia headed into the 2022 election, the media focussed on the usual two-horse race. They ran photos of Scott ...Show more
Labor People: The Stories of Six True Believers by Chris Bowen
$29.95 AUD
Category: #Auspol
How much do you know about the history of Australia’s oldest political party, the Australian Labor Party? You know the big names: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke and Keating. But what about the names behind the big names? The unsung and overlooked True Believers who have been the backbone of the Labor P ...Show more
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit by Bernard Keane
$22.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol | Series: The\Critical Take Ser.
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Governmentand The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first i ...Show more
Lockdown by Chip Le Grand
$32.95 AUD
Category: #Auspol
How does a city go from being the world’s most liveable to its most locked down? For 262 days, Melbourne was cocooned by stay-at-home orders. Businesses were forcibly closed, classrooms shuttered, and community and social life relegated to an impersonal online world. To stop the spread of a virus, peopl ...Show more
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani ; Omid Tofighian (Translator)
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Category: Memoir & Biography | Series: Writings from Manus Prison
Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and f ...Show more
No Front Line: Australia's special forces at war in Afghanistan by Chris Masters
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Category: #Auspol
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australian Defen ...Show more
Now More than Ever: Australia's ABC by David Anderson
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Category: #Auspol | Series: In the National Interest
Disregard the critics. Australia’s ABC, at ninety years of age, is demonstrably more valuable to Australians now than it has ever been. The ABC’s home-grown Managing Director, David Anderson, gives us a rare insight into the ABC he knows intimately: a cultural powerhouse where Australian identity is cel ...Show more