Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more
Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise by Niki Savva
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie Oakes Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Austra ...Show more
Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics by Jo Dyer
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Morrison government’s moral decline happened first slowly and then all at once. We suffered through ‘Sports rorts’ and ‘Watergate’ and an MIA PM, before the dissembling response to allegations of sexual abuse at the very heart of federal politics threw into stark relief the cynicism and moral bankru ...Show more
China Panic: Australia's Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering by David Brophy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When he visited Australia in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping said there was an 'ocean of goodwill' between our country and his. Since then that ocean has shown dramatic signs of freezing over. Australia is in the grip of a China Panic. How did we get here and what's the way out?We hear, weekly, alarm ...Show more
Courting Power: Law, Democracy & the Public Interest in Australia by Isabelle Reinecke
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Courts aren’t just there to settle divorces, sentence law-breakers and resolve corporate disputes. A healthy legal system, one that ensures access, transparency and accountability, is fundamental to democracy. When the system works, the courts act as a check on government power, holding our politicians ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more
Grace - President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan
$42.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan's new book chronicles ten days that tested us and ultimately showed us at our best. It's a captivating story about what's worth fighting for, an antidote to cynicism that will make you believe again."--Presi ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Maria Ressa
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021What will you sacrifice for the truth?Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the mo ...Show more
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance by Paul Mason
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far rightThe far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happ ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky & C. J. Polychroniou
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In these wide-ranging and incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the rapidly deteriorating quality of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. Noam Chomsky examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the ...Show more