Sorry and Beyond: Healing the Stolen Generations by Brian Butler, John Bond
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Brian Butler’s grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian’s mother, was taken.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, like Brian Butler’s, have been coping with the trauma of child removal for more than a century. Sorr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero; Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
The Beijing Bureau: Reporting China's Rise by Trevor Watson (Editor); Melissa Roberts (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
The Beijing Bureau is a collection of essays from twenty-four of Australia's leading foreign correspondents revealing their experiences and insights into China, from the 1970s to present day: the lives of its people, its government and its culture, and what China's rise means for Australia and the world ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imagination. Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our soci ...Show more
Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings.But there is ...Show more
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Generous, erudite, optimistic and candid...Hugh Mackay encourages us to find the best in ourselves and in our society in both good and troubled times. Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country - kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more i ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: very good
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (In the National Interest) by Bill Bowtell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering ...Show more
Challenging Politics (In the National Interest) by Scott Ryan
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Australia has enjoyed an unprecedented period of prosperity in recent decades, yet despite this there has been a widely reported loss of faith in politics and institutions. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia faces its most significant economic and social challenges in decades. How is politics placed ...Show more
Power & Consent by Rachel Doyle
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The scandal involving Dyson Heydon, former justice of the High Court, confirmed that the scourge of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces was also to be found in the chambers of one of the seven most senior judges in the country. An unquestioning reliance on the calibre of the fine legal minds appo ...Show more
The Case for Courage (In the National Interest) by Kevin Rudd
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Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
For some time, Australia's democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation's major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It's tempting, but distracting, to point to the usual list of reasons, from the declining ca ...Show more