The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers by Mungo MacCallum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
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
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia by Angela Woollacott
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Don Dunstan was one of the most significant political figures of twentieth-century Australia. As Premier of South Australia, he blazed a trail of reform. But his influence reached far beyond his home state. He was seen as the architect of a new kind of Australian society, and his decade in office marked ...Show more
Isis: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Here, two of America's leading experts on violent extremism have joined together to explain the genesis, evolution, and implications of today's most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State.
Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A collection of plays that focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.
The New Spymasters - Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror by Stephen Grey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
"Number one Evening Standarad bestseller book of the year". (Daily Telegraph). "Exceptional. A blueprint for productive, sophisticated espionage in the age of Islamist terror". (Daily Telegraph). Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots ...Show more
Notes on an Exodus by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Notes on the exodus of refugees from Syria, by Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan. With illustrations from Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty. In January 2016 Richard Flanagan and Ben Quilty travelled to Lebanon, Greece, and Serbia to follow the river that is the exodus of our age: that of refugees ...Show more
A Wary Embrace: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World by Bobo Lo
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Lowy Institute Paper
With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be Russia and China who now define the rules of global politics? From Syria to the South China Sea, each has become much more assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence in world affairs. Y ...Show more
ConfusionThe Making of the Australian Two-Party System by Paul Strangio; Nicholas Dyrenfurth
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Academic Monograph Ser.
In Confusion, some of Australia's foremost political historians including Judith Brett and Stuart Macintyre revisit the seminal moment when liberals threw in their lot with the conservatives.In May 1909, Alfred Deakin, the radical liberal doyen, struck an agreement for a controversial 'fusion' with the ...Show more
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson, Patricia Drum
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their fascination with the brutal RudduGillard struggle as enduring as the saga itself. This is the book that brings you the uncut version of The Killing Season, taking you behind the cameras to reveal the untold stories and candid moments that ...Show more
A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama by Professor Michael D'Antonio
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Once a most unlikely candidate, Barack Obama s successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and Great Recession discouraged millions of Americans, Obama s promise of hope revived the national sp ...Show more
American AmnesiaHow the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich by Jacob S. Hacker; Paul Pierson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
From the groundbreaking author team behind the bestselling Winner-Take-All Politics, a timely and topical work that examines what's good for American business and what's good for Americans--and why those interests are misaligned. In Winner-Take-All Politics, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explained ho ...Show more