Zero Risk by Tony Loughran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Keeping others safe in a dangerous world. We live in a dangerous world. And the stories of war and terrorism that fill our screens are brought to us by brave journalists who put their lives on the line. They will always face peril, but now they can work in much greater safety, thanks to the determinatio ...Show more
The Locked-up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia's Covid-19 Response by Tom Chodor, Shahar Hameiri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A timely analysis of Australia's response to the pandemic, which asks what have we learned?Donald Horne famously called Australia 'the lucky country'. So how did we become the locked-up country and how might the future look different?Australia has changed enormously since Horne's 1960s, but its response ...Show more
What Are Animal Rights For? by Steve Cooke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: What Is It For? Ser.
How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering? The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more
Flawed Hero: Truth, Lies and War Crimes by Chris Masters
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.
Eating the Earth: Why We Need to Change the Way we do Business with Nature by Justyn Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Money talks, but it doesn't always tell the truth ...Although it has generated riches for billions, industrial capitalism is underwritten by a planetary pyramid scheme. In the global equivalent of selling the furniture to pay the rent, we are destroying natural assets and calling the result 'income' whi ...Show more
Saving Our Kids: The Inside Story of Taskforce Argos, Detective Inspector Jon Rouse and Their Mission To Protect Our Children Online by Madonna King
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The crime of sextortion has reached epidemic proportions, fuelled by both sex offenders and organised scammers targeting our most vulnerable online. Children are some of the internet's most prolific and most naive users, and increasing numbers are finding themselves caught in an evil web of networked m ...Show more
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain by Alan Finkel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy. The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan F ...Show more
Look What You Made Me Do: Fathers Who Kill by Megan Norris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One Australian woman is hospitalised every three hours and two more lose their lives each week as a result of family violence. But for some women, there is a punishment far more enduring than injury or their own death. Look What You Made Me Do, is a timely exploration of the evil inflicted by vengeful ...Show more
Our Voices From The Heart by Patricia Anderson AO, Professor Megan Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itse ...Show more
Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all by Hannah Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provoke and inspire meaningful change. The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the futur ...Show more