Planet Jackson - Power, greed & unions by Brad Norington
$32.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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
The Mindful Activist by Insight Editions (Compiled by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Develop unique ways to help your community and the world with this guided journal designed to spark positive change and inspire the activist in you. The Mindful Activist helps you identify your true calling in the world when it comes to being socially aware and active, while focusing on caring for y ...Show more
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
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Category: Current Affairs
"Explosive."--The Washington Post "Devastating."--The New Yorker THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's W ...Show more
The A, B & C of Democracy: Or Cats in the Sack by Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, Kyle Redman
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Category: Current Affairs
A handbook for building a better democracy.This is a learner's guide to a better democracy. Sounds ambitious? It is. The catalyst for publishing this book is obvious. There's no need to regurgitate the public's disaffection with politics. Mired in the tawdry mechanics of political campaigning, and incap ...Show more
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how General Suharto's bloody seizure of power in the 1960s w ...Show more
No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel by Shimon Peres
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Shimon Peres, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, caps his legacy with this final book, completed shortly before his death - a majestic, intimate, and personal exploration of modern Israel's history and values that provides invaluable insights for it ...Show more
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top secret documents related to America's nuclear program in the 1960s. Here for the first time he reveals the contents of those documents, and makes clear ...Show more
The List : A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump's First Year by Amy Siskind
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom The Weekly List. In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump 's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda, began compi ...Show more
Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
Hoodwinked: How Pauline Hanson Fooled a Nation by Kerry-Anne Walsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Pauline Hanson claims to represent the average Australian but The Stalking of Julia Gillard's Kerry-Anne Walsh has discovered nothing could be further from the truth.
We're Doomed. Now What?: Dispatches from the Far Side of Hope by Roy Scranton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We're Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time. Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering change--the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies ...Show more