Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young by Jennifer Rayner
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Category: Current Affairs
A country that makes no room for the young is a country that will forfeit a fair future. This must not become Australia. Today's young Australians are the first generation since the Great Depression to be worse off than their parents. And so, just as we have seen the gap between rich and poor widen ...Show more
The Mind of the Islamic State: Milestones Along the Road by Robert Manne
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Category: Current Affairs
"'A deep dive into how the ideologues behind Salafi jihadism shaped the global menace that we now know as Islamic State. If you want to understand how it all began, this is an essential read.' - Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent for theGuardian, winner of the 2015 Orwell Prize for journalism So o ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming by Stan Grant
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Quarterly Essay 64, Stan Grant takes a deep and passionate look at Indigenous futures, in particular the fraught question of remote communities. Moving beyond simplistic talk of "lifestyle choices," Grant explores what makes for a sustainable community and life, and then asks- what can we do to insti ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
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Category: 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
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and Billion-Dollar Deals by John LeFevre
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Category: Current Affairs
Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the account, Goldman Sachs launched an internal investigation, and when the true identity of the man behind ...Show more
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Lisa Featherstone
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Category: Current Affairs
Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, it's thought, would be an achievement for all women everywhere, a kind of ...Show more
Rise of the Robots Technology and the threat of mass unemployment by Martin Ford
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Category: Current Affairs
If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment ...Show more
The Dismissal Dossier (Updated Edition) by Jenny Hocking
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Category: Current Affairs
Here is the definitive story of the most divisive episode in Australia's history-the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's government. In her award-winning biography of Gough Whitlam, Jenny Hocking first revealed the astonishing secret story of the planning, the people-and the collusion-behind the removal of Gou ...Show more
West Winging It by Pat Cunnane
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Category: Current Affairs
Is it more like The West Wing or House of Cards? Do you have to put your try table up on Air Force One? Is the President any good at basketball? What do you call him when you talk to him? How do you pick the people the president meets with? Is he really that cool, or is it an act? West Winging It pulls ...Show more
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost Its Way by Steve Richards
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Category: Current Affairs
Something strange has been happening. All over the world, people are angry and rejecting the establishment like never before. Britain votes Brexit. Trump promises walls in America. Corbyn promises a new socialism in the UK. Tsipras in Greece. Podemos in Spain. Marine Le Pen in France. Norbert Hofer in A ...Show more
The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky by Jeff Wilson; Eliseu Gouveia (Illustrator)
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Category: Current Affairs
In the tradition of Joe Sacco's graphic journalism comes the first interview-based graphic novel treatment of Noam Chomsky's political ideas and activism. An astonishing graphic novel that brings Chomsky's political analysis to bear on real people's stories on the frontlines of America's struggle for ec ...Show more
WTF: What's the Future and Why It's up to Us by Tim O'Reilly
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Category: Current Affairs
'The man who can really make a whole industry happen.' Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google 'A punchy and provocative book . . . WTF? is an insightful and heartfelt plea, daring us to reimagine a better economy and society.' Financial Times Renowned as 'the Oracle of Silicon Valley', Tim O'Reilly ...Show more