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Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's Fatal Alliance with the United States by Emma Shortis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In Our Exceptional Friend, Emma Shortis draws on history, current affairs and questions of morality to mount a compelling and unique case as to why Australia's relationship with the United States needs a serious overhaul. Australians are told that we have two choices in this world: the United States, or ...Show more
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
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
Sex, Lies and Question Time: Why the successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament matter to us all by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic by Joe Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
How do you develop a life-saving drug when every second counts and one mistake could be catastrophic? When the world stopped, all hopes rested on finding a vaccine. One team answered the call and were ready to act. But how do you develop a life-saving drug when every second counts and one mistake could ...Show more
Dear Prime Minister Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949–1966 by Martyn Lyons
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
‘I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his 1949-1966 record-breaking second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political lea ...Show more
The Reckoning: How #MeToo is changing Australia: Quarterly Essay 84 by Jess Hill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
This year, Australia's #MeToo moment erupted in the national parliament. In this electrifying essay, Jess Hill, the acclaimed author of See What You Made Me Do, traces the meaning of those events and what could happen next. What are the politics of rage? What couldn't Scott Morrison see? And what hope i ...Show more
The Reckoning: America's trauma and finding a way to heal by Mary Trump
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. The Reckoning will examine America's national trauma, rooted in its history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral ...Show more
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit by Bernard Keane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | 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
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar 'New Silk Road' global investment project to its gro ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 82: Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of social security and concern for the future? Australia faces recession. In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of care and fear, of social security and concern for the future? In this original essay, George Megalogenis explains ...Show more
The Accidental Prime Minister by Annika Smethurst
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Nine months after the spill that catapulted him to the prime ministership, Scott Morrison won the 2019 election, shocking politicians and political pundits (and, quite possibly, himself). Yet, unlike his predecessors, little was really known about the former marketing man whose hard-nosed political inst ...Show more