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Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s Demise and Scott Morrison’s Ascension by Niki Savva

$35.00 AUD

'How good is this book! So much intrigue. So many revelations. Such a brilliant read.’Laurie OakesIn an enthralling sequel to her bestselling The Road to Ruin, Niki Savva reveals the inside story of a bungled coup that overthrew the Liberal prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and installed a surpris ...Show more

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Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: The 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

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See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill

$32.99 AUD

Category: Politics

At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. 'You must get so frustrated when you ...Show more

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A Wunch of Bankers: A Year in the Hayne Royal Commission by Dan Ziffer

$32.99 AUD

Category: Politics

It wasn't just its exhaustive rounds of hearings around the country - Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, and Sydney - on topics from farming finance to financial planning. It wasn't even the long list of scandals exposed to a horrified nation - charging fees to dead people, blatant conflicts of interest, and ...Show more

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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

$6.00 AUD

Category: Politics

The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation 'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up ...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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From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting PB 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

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Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next by Richard Denniss

$24.99 AUD

Category: Politics

This updated and expanded edition of Richard Denniss?s bestselling Quarterly Essay gives a template for understanding the next federal election; discusses how and why the right of politics has continued to splinter; focuses on why energy and climate policy is such a problem for conservative politics; an ...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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This Is Not a Drill: The Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion Staff

$19.99 AUD

Category: Politics

Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown. Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history. It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world a ...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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Who's Minding the Farm? In This Climate Emergency by Patrice Newell

$35.00 AUD

Category: Politics | Reading Level: 2 Crime

A vital account of how sustainable farming can address urgent issues such as climate change and water scarcity, health and nutrition, land stewardship, renewables vs. the coal industry, as well as meaningful and fulfilling rural employment. And a call to arms. You know who is minding the farm - our ...Show more

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Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s Demise and Scott Morrison’s Ascension by Niki Savva

$35.00 AUD

Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: The Australia's Prime Ministers by Mungo MacCallum

$32.99 AUD

See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence by Jess Hill

$32.99 AUD

A Wunch of Bankers: A Year in the Hayne Royal Commission by Dan Ziffer

$32.99 AUD

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

$6.00 AUD

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

$35.00 AUD

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

$29.99 AUD

Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next by Richard Denniss

$24.99 AUD

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

$29.99 AUD

This Is Not a Drill: The Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion Staff

$19.99 AUD

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

$22.99 AUD

Who's Minding the Farm? In This Climate Emergency by Patrice Newell

$35.00 AUD

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