En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young
$14.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking, why didn’t she just fight back? Afte ...Show more
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia by Dominic Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Political history at its best. This is the story of the hard right in Australia - of how Ray Evans and his boss at Western Mining Corporation, Hugh Morgan, became the pioneers of a new form of right-wing politics whose forceful reshaping of public debates transformed Australian politics. With a calm ga ...Show more
Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation: Quarterly Essay 73 by Rebecca Huntley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | 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
The Front Runner by Matt Bai
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party?s presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumours of marital infidelity and a newspaper?s stakeout of Hart?s home resulted in a ...Show more
On Father by John Birmingham
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Category: Current Affairs
John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the dark forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland. A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has battled the black dog.
On Us by Mark Scott
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to matter equally, On Usoffers a few more on choice in a concentrated media worl ...Show more
Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices will fall while the lights stay on. Debate is reduced to two equally preposterous narratives: coal-fired, climate chan ...Show more
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Musician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ord ...Show more
Money Spinners: How Australians Were Fed Lies, Sold Spin and Charged Money for Nothing by Banks and Financial Advisers by Annelise Nielsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Is financial advice riddled with scandals because there are just a few bad apples or is there an inherent conflict in the profession? Financial advice in Australia started with insurance brokers going door to door dispensing advice, and that slowly edged its way into financial advice then, compulsory s ...Show more
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the truth. by Adele Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Corporate Greed/Broken Governance Failed Aust.
Winner of the Davitt Award for Non-fiction Crime 2020 The shocking truth about Australia's financial institutions, as told by the journalist who did most to bring about Australia's banking royal commission. Against all the odds Australia ended up with a banking royal commission. Since hearings began i ...Show more
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the bloody war on drugs by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different p ...Show more
The World without Us by Alan Weisman
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Category: Current Affairs
On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go. What if mankind disappeared right now, forever? ...What would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's ...Show more