In the Closet of the Vatican - Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy by Frederic Martel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. This brilliant piece of investigative writing is based on four years' authoritative research, including extensive interviews with those in power. The celibacy of priests, the condemnation of t ...Show more
Political Tribes - Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
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Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices will fall while the lights stay on. Debate is reduced to two equally preposterous narratives: coal-fired, climate chan ...Show more
How to Defend Australia by Hugh White
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A brilliant and important book about Australia's future. Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White cons ...Show more
Siege: Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller FIRE AND FURY, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. With FIRE AND FURY, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in SIEGE, he has written an equally essential and explosive bo ...Show more
The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Dispossession in Australia
`The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism? With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-libe ...Show more
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
The Golden Country: Australia's Changing Identity by Tim Watts
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Australia's Changing Identity
John Howard was the unlikely reformer of Australian society. He loosened migration laws, massively boosting the population and making it less white. Simultaneously, his divisive rhetoric about national identity--a legacy of White Australia--hamstrung discussion of these huge changes. As the MP for a div ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--throu ...Show more
Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the bloody war on drugs by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different p ...Show more
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours - late ...Show more
Merle Thornton: Bringing the Fight by Merle Thornton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An engaging, lively, provocative and, above all, inspiring memoir from one of our home-grown, unsung feminist heroes, Merle Thornton, who has lived a life full of daring, defiance and activism. Merle Thornton is one of Australia's most delightful, formidable and game-changing pioneering feminists - ...Show more