Behind the Lines: The Year in Political Cartoons 2023 by Museum of Australian Democracy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2023 celebrates another year in Australia's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. No politician, party or policy is safe from the nation's best cartoonists; witty, powerful or ribald, their images offer an astutely observed j ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Crown Casino, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten’s Allied Medical Group, 7 Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…Award-winning author Quentin Beresford has dissected the rise and fall of the Gunns logging company and analysed the proposed Adani mine and our greatest river sy ...Show more
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Category: Current Affairs
'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close...' Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March ...Show more
How to Fix Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A highly topical and original investigation into the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland, published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement. ‘Deeply researched and often revelatory… variegated and sensitive’ Literary Review It is twenty-five years since the Good Friday Agre ...Show more
Self-Made - Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
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Category: Current Affairs
'This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Dürer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you want to understand how we reinvent ourselves every time we reveal ourselves' PETER POMERANTSEV Today's defining celebrities have crafted public personae that walk the tightrope between authentici ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty: 50 cards to protect your energy and find self-love by Florence Given
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Category: Current Affairs
Be brave and bold - there's nobody quite like you - it's time to recognize your confidence and express your true self brazenly.In a fast-paced world, sometimes it's easy to lose sight of the things that make us extraordinary and brilliant and shake our confidence. However, we all need to take time to si ...Show more
Life As We Knew It: the extraordinary story of Australia's pandemic by Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
It was never part of the plan that Australia would be locked down and shut off from the world for two years. But when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in 2020, and the bodies began piling up overseas, Australians took unprecedented steps to avoid a catastrophe heading their way. The country’s near-eliminat ...Show more
Zero Risk by Tony Loughran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Keeping others safe in a dangerous world. We live in a dangerous world. And the stories of war and terrorism that fill our screens are brought to us by brave journalists who put their lives on the line. They will always face peril, but now they can work in much greater safety, thanks to the determinatio ...Show more
The Locked-up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia's Covid-19 Response by Tom Chodor, Shahar Hameiri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A timely analysis of Australia's response to the pandemic, which asks what have we learned?Donald Horne famously called Australia 'the lucky country'. So how did we become the locked-up country and how might the future look different?Australia has changed enormously since Horne's 1960s, but its response ...Show more
What Are Animal Rights For? by Steve Cooke
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: What Is It For? Ser.
How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half century. How much further do we need to go to minimize, and even eliminate, animal suffering? The field of animal rights raises big questions about how humans ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
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Category: Current Affairs
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more