Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life by Judith Brett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A brilliant collection of the best essays by award-winning writer Judith Brett, long revered by those in the know as Australia's brightest and most astute political commentator. Since the 1980s Judith Brett has been helping to shape Australians' conversations about politics, bringing a historian's eye ...Show more
The Gospel According to Paul by Jonathan Biggins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Keating had a deadly wit and an ego the size of Everest. But he was also a remarkable politician, and we can learn much from him about the art and craft of politics.Paul Keating was, above all, a politician with a vision for the country but he was also a master of the theatre of politics, skewering his ...Show more
Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's public attacks on China. China is standing firm a ...Show more
Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers by Chris Wallace
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.In 2011, Chris Wallace was writing a biography of Julia Gillard. After seeing the unparalleled onslaught from the Abbott opposition, she cancelled her contract and repaid her advance with the awareness of how ...Show more
The Dismissal by Troy Bramston; Paul Kelly
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
"Forty years on, the dismissal remains one of the most damaging and controversial events in Australian politics. This groundbreaking book by two of our leading journalists provides a startling reinterpretation of events. It tells the story of the clash between extraordinary personalities- two political ...Show more
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Zionism. When apartheid in South Africa ended, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keepi ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2019 by Museum of Australian Democracy (Produced by)
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2019 celebratesanother year in Australia's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition ofpolitical cartooning. No politician, party or policy is safe from the nation'sbest cartoonists; witty, powerful or ribald, their images offer an astutelyobserved journ ...Show more
A Warning: A Senior Trump Administration Official by Anonymous
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power by David Crowe
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power. They plotted. They schemed. They unleashed chaos. Australia lost two prime ministers in three years in a period of political bloodshed that took the nation' ...Show more
American Kompromat - How the KGB cultivated Donald trump and related tales of sex, greed, power and treachery by Craig, Unger
$47.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Kompromat n.--Russian for "compromising information" This is a story of dirty secrets, and the most powerful people in the world. Craig Unger's new book, American Kompromat, tells of the spies and salacious events underpinning men's reputations and riches. It tells how a relatively insignificant targeti ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal by Megan Davis
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of Australia. This essential Quarterly Essay seeks to do two things: to make the strongest, clearest possible case for the Voice to Parliament and to draw out the significance and the promise of this reform - ...Show more