China Dependence - Australia's New Vulnerability by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores Australia's status as the most China-dependent country in the developed world, and the potential risks this poses to its future prosperity and security. China Dependence examines how Australia should respond to the emerging economic and diplomatic ...Show more
The Surprise Party: How the Coalition Went from Chaos to Comeback by Aaron Patrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Disunity is said to be death in politics - but not in 2019. In The Surprise Party, Aaron Patrick tells how the Coalition came back from the brink. Patrick interviews key insiders to reveal the story behind the scenes - the turning points and the cunning schemes. He covers the fall of Turnbull and the fa ...Show more
Our Very Own Brexit: Australia's Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us by Sam Roggeveen
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How did Australian politics get so weird? This book argues that Australia is part of a major shift happening across the world's democracies. Pundits say populism is the big new danger, but they're wrong.Political parties are at the core of democracy, yet all over the West, big parties are hollowing out- ...Show more
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan by David Kilcullen, Greg Mills
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Category: Current Affairs
'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson of America's role in supporting the mujahideen against the Soviet Union. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' The scandal-prone US Congressman lamented the absence of support for Afghanistan after that war, a vac ...Show more
The 9. 9 Percent - The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture by Matthew Stewart
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A scorching, trenchant, analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone--including themselves.In 21st century America, the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution have walked away with the big prizes even while the bottom 90% have lost ground. What's left of th ...Show more
The Rebel and the Kingdom - The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime by Bradley Hope
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale of a self-taught operative and his high-stakes attempt to change the world. In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for h ...Show more
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
$23.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The ascension of Vladimir Putin - a former lieutenant colonel of the KGB - to the presidency of Russia in 1999 was a strong signal that the country was headed away from democracy. Yet in the intervening years - as America and the world's other leading powers have continued to appease him - Putin has gro ...Show more
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Unravelling of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
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Category: Current Affairs
We're now in the fifteenth year since 9/11 and, horrible though it is to contemplate, we may be nowhere close to the end of the War on Terror. For a while, it looked like things were improving: we were getting on top of the threat. But that was before ISIS began crucifying children, before the Taliban s ...Show more
Tales From The Political Trenches (Updated for 2013 Election) by Maxine McKew
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Category: Current Affairs
'Not many leaders are gifted a second chance. In the short time he had before he faced the verdict of the people, Kevin Rudd had to revive respect and credibility in his governing party. Beyond that, he needed to give Australians a bit of hope, and return a sense of pride to a country that for too long ...Show more
Road to Ruin - How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government by Niki Savva
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Kevin Rudd was given no warning, but even he lasted longer than Abbott. Julia Gillard had plenty of warnings, but even she lasted longer than Abbott. Abbott ignored all the warnings, from beginning to end - the public ones, the private ones, from his friends, his colleagues, the media. His colleagues we ...Show more
Planet Jackson - Power, greed & unions by Brad Norington
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Category: Current Affairs
Kathy Jackson was hailed as a heroine for blowing the whistle on the million-dollar fraud of Michael Williamson, the corrupt boss of the Health Services Union. While remaining steadfast in this very public ordeal, she endured bitter personal attacks from enemies in the Labor Party and the union movement ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next by Richard Denniss
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial? In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society. For decades, ...Show more