On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.In the last two decades the uses of the term 'nationalism' has increased steeply with the rising ...Show more
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. In 2018, Sally Hayden received a message on Facebook: “Hi sister Sally, we need your help.” It was from an Eritrean man who had been held in a Libyan detention centre for months. Every ...Show more
The Covid Consensus: The New Politics of Global Inequality by Toby Green
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
Why does Western pandemic policy have support across the political spectrum, when its social impacts conflict with ideology on both right and left?During the pandemic, the Left has agreed that 'following the science' with hard lockdowns is the best way to preserve life; only irresponsible right-wing pop ...Show more
The Age of The Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new nationalism, leadership cults and hostility to liberal democracy. We are in a new era- authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Since 2000, self-styled strongmen have risen to power ...Show more
Keeping Them Honest: the case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms by Stephen Charles QC AO Charles, Catherine Williams
$33.00 AUD
Category: Political
A revealing and compelling case by Australia's foremost integrity advocate for a strong national body to expose political corruption, uphold accountability, and restore trust - and why the country needs it now. Over the last few years, instances of the federal government spending taxpayers' money to ga ...Show more
Who Needs the ABC? Why Taking It For Granted is No Longer An Option by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. Its staffing levels have been cut. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with a succession of political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercia ...Show more
Morrison's Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: How a beginner reshaped Australian foreign policy by Paul Kelly
$13.00 AUD
Category: Political
When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges- an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by maki ...Show more
Worldmaking - The Art and Science of American Diplomacy by David Milne
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
A new intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy from the late nineteenth century to the presentWorldmaking is a compelling new take on the history of American diplomacy. Rather than retelling the story of realism versus idealism, David Milne suggests that U.S. foreign policy has also been crucially di ...Show more
Class in Australia by Threadgold Steven
$39.95 AUD
Category: Political
Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as a ‘lucky country’ with a strong economy, we are witness to intensifying inequality with entrenched poverty and the growth of precarious and insecure labour. ...Show more
Leo and Mina Fink: For the Greater Good by Margaret Taft
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political
During the darkest days of the Holocaust, Europe’s Jews faced annihilation. In faraway Melbourne, immigrants Leo and Mina Fink rallied to rescue the survivors. It was a massive task. Undaunted, they battled bureaucrats, public opinion and at times the Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell. Marshalling ...Show more
China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar 'New Silk Road' global investment project to its gro ...Show more
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China by Kevin Rudd
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Written by one of Australia's former prime ministers and China expert, this book challenges the politicians, strategists and generals on both sides as they happily embark on the slippery slope of decoupling, containment, confrontation, conflict and Cold War. Possibly even the unthinkable: war itself. ...Show more