Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda by Jenny Hocking
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Australian History
The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and certainties of twenty-three years of conservative government and changed it irrevocably. It passed a record number of bills into law and became the most successful reformist government in Australias history. This book brings to light ...Show more
Looking Into The Abyss by Barry Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This collection of insightful articles from Barry Jones follows in the footsteps of the acclaimed Knowledge Courage Leadership (2016) and includes reflections on the big political and social issues and concerns locally, nationally and internationally. Understand more about key issues including religious ...Show more
The Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 Milestones in the History of Law by Michael H. Roffer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching, and often-controversial cases, laws, and trials that have profoundly changed our world - for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents as well as today's hot-button issues, The Law Book present ...Show more
Latham at Large by Mark Latham
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Mark Latham is, by his own admission, the most outspoken, rebellious, thoroughly uncontrollable former leader in Labor Party history. In these brilliantly written opinion pieces he pulls no punches as he scrutinises the Australian political landscape, looking at everything from climate change to Clive P ...Show more
Lazarus Rising (Revised Edition) by John Howard
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Australian politics through the eyes of the ultimate insider John Howard spent decades under media scrutiny, and while his credentials as a political leader, devoted family man and sports tragic are beyond dispute, in this autobiography he reveals much more about himself. In Lazarus Rising Howard traces ...Show more
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson, Patricia Drum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their fascination with the brutal RudduGillard struggle as enduring as the saga itself. This is the book that brings you the uncut version of The Killing Season, taking you behind the cameras to reveal the untold stories and candid moments that ...Show more
It's Even Worse Than You Think by David Cay Johnston
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety--completed revised and updated. New York Times ...Show more
Is There No Place: Penguin Special by Kate Richards
$9.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Specials
Kate Richards experienced episodes of depression and psychosis well into her adult life. As a trained doctor working in medical research, she is well positioned to ask the hard questions about how we care for our people with mental illness. Using case studies and her own observations, Kate challenges th ...Show more
Islam & the Future of Tolerance - A Dialog by Maajid Nawaz; Sam Harris
$37.95 AUD
Category: Politics
In this deeply informed exchange, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz present an antidote to the polarizing rhetoric and obscurantism that define our time: honest dialogue. Guided by a commitment to the belief that no idea is above scrutiny and no people beneath dignity, Harris and Nawaz challenge each other, a ...Show more
Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary by Gareth Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
As good as it gets in Australian politics. That is how the Hawke -Keating Government is now widely regarded. But how did this highly able, ambitious, strong-willed collective work through its crises and rivalries, and achieve what it did? Gareth Evans's diary, written in the mid-1980s and published now ...Show more
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus by Matt Taibbi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
"The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll ...Show more
Incorrigible Optimist (HB) by Gareth Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades-described by Bob Hawke as having 'the most acute mind' of any of his ministers-Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, ge ...Show more