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

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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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Monthly Magazine

$12.95 AUD

Category: Politics

The Monthly is one of Australia’s boldest voices, providing enlightening commentary and vigorous, at times controversial, debate on the issues that affect the nation. Home to our finest thinkers, journalists and critics, including David Marr, Helen Garner, Don Watson and Anna Goldsw ...Show more

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Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond

$35.00 AUD

Category: Politics

In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...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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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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Granta 147 by Sigrid Rausing

$24.99 AUD

Category: Politics | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.

Granta 147 will be our Fortieth Birthday Special. This will be a celebratory issue featuring a collection of the best essays and fiction from the magazine's lauded history. It has now been forty years since Bill Buford, Jonathan Levi and Peter de Bolla relaunched Cambridge University's student publicat ...Show more

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

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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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Elections Matter - Ten Federal Elections That Shaped Australia by Frank Bongiorno (Editor); Benjamin T. Jones (Editor); John Uhr (Editor)

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Category: Politics | Series: Politics Ser.

In a world of fake news and populist politics, elections can seem like theatre. With growing rates of informal votes and a perceived narrowing of differences between the major parties, do Australian elections really matter? Taking ten examples, this book argues that elections do matter (even when you th ...Show more

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The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis

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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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Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts

$22.99 AUD

Category: Politics

Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged from those created in the post-war era. Going beyond the scenes of desperation which have become all-too-familiar in the past few years, Alexander Betts and Paul Coll ...Show more

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

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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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Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics by Troy Bramston

$49.99 AUD

Category: Politics

Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed over, and yet he staged one of the great comebacks to forge a new political party, devise a new g ...Show more

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

$29.99 AUD

Monthly Magazine

$12.95 AUD

Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond

$35.00 AUD

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

$32.99 AUD

The Colonial Fantasy by Sarah Maddison

$34.99 AUD

Granta 147 by Sigrid Rausing

$24.99 AUD

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

$34.99 AUD

Elections Matter - Ten Federal Elections That Shaped Australia by Frank Bongiorno (Editor); Benjamin T. Jones (Editor); John Uhr (Editor)

$29.95 AUD

The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis

$24.99 AUD

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts

$22.99 AUD

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

$24.99 AUD

Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics by Troy Bramston

$49.99 AUD

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