Rusted Off: Why country Australia is fed up by Gabrielle Chan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs 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
On Mutiny by David Speers
$14.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Why was Malcolm Turnbull removed and how did Scott Morrison emerge as Australia?s thirtieth prime minister?On Mutinyis the inside story, a blow-by-blow expose of the plotting, double dealing and numbers game by politicians in the most brutal period in Australian politics since the Dismissal. If we reall ...Show more
Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes, and Politics by Charles Krauthammer
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
From America's preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer's essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges conventional wisdom at every turn, ...Show more
The Guilty Feminist: From our noble goals to our worst hypocrisies by Deborah Frances-White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap, but I also wanted to look good sitting down naked. A funny, joyful, frank and inspiring book about embracing both feminism and our imperfectio ...Show more
Seize the Fire: Three Speeches by Richard Flanagan
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country-our country-belongs to its dreamers . . . if we are finally to once more go forward as a people it's time our dreamers were brought in from the cold. Richard F ...Show more
Cardinal - The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
George Pell is the most recognisable face of the Australian Catholic Church. He was the Ballarat boy with the film-star looks who studied at Oxford and rose through the ranks to become the Vatican's indispensable 'Treasurer'. As an outspoken defender of church orthodoxy, 'Big George's' ascendancy within ...Show more
Whiteshift - Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of white majorities This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is tran ...Show more
The Change Makers: 25 Leaders in Their Own Words by Shaun Carney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Good leadership. Why is it so elusive? Are there successful traits that can be transferred from one field to another, or is it a constant application of imagination to the changing challenges? How do you take others with you? Now more than ever we need leaders who can be strong yet humble, bold and ass ...Show more
Love Your Enemies - How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur C. Brooks
$40.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Now a National Bestseller.To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an "outrage industrial complex" that prospers by setting American against American, creating a "culture of co ...Show more
Fixed It by Jane Gilmore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: Feminist Theory | Reading Level: very good
On average, at least one woman is murdered by a current or former partner every week in Australia. Far too many Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence. Only rarely do these women capture the attention of the media and the public. What can we do to stem the tide of violence and tra ...Show more
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
As you read this, thousands of remote computers are refining secret models of who you are, using the information to make huge fortunes for a few people. Does the future have to be this way? How can we change it? In this visionary book Jaron Lanier imagines an alternative, where economic power is given b ...Show more
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: good
The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity--and wit--in this lighthearted audiobook with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan. 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalis ...Show more