The Road to Ruin: The bestselling prequel to Plots and Prayers by Niki Savva
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
'There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.'-Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015Abbott's performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. He sounded desperate, he was inconsistent, and -?his colleagues thought?-?slightly ridiculous ...Show more
Reboot: A Democracy Makeover to Empower Australia's Voters by Richard Walsh
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
If you want real change, change the system. Reboot offers a tantalising glimpse of a better future, where politicians work directly and closely with those who voted for them. Utopian? Disillusional? Richard Walsh makes a tour de force argument for doing away with the senate, embracing a republic and hav ...Show more
Asylum by Boat by Claire Higgins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
In the late 1970s, just over 2000 Vietnamese arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing war and oppression. This influx of people, and the way the Fraser government handled it, marked not only the real end of the White Australia Policy as tests for entry were no longer based on race, it presented major chall ...Show more
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea : And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco
$30.00 AUD
Category: Political
If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this ...Alyssa Mastromonaco worked for Barack Obama for almost a decade, and long before his run for president. From the then-senator's early days ...Show more
The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace by Kishore Mahbubani
$39.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations-especially Islam and the West-cannot live together in peace. The ten countries of ASEAN provide a thriving counter-example of civilizatio ...Show more
'Against Native Title': Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia by Eve Vincent
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political
Against Native Title is about one group's lived experience of a divisive native title claim in the outback town of Ceduna, where the native title claims process has thoroughly reorganised local Aboriginal identities over the course of the past decade. The central character in this story is senior Aborig ...Show more
A Charter of Rights for Australia by George Williams
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Australia does not have a bill or charter of rights, which means there is no comprehensive law that enshrines human rights in Australia - even though these laws are standard in the rest of the developed world. So what does this mean for the rights of Australian citizens? In this fully revised fourth edi ...Show more
Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda by Jenny Hocking
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Australian History
The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and certainties of twenty-three years of conservative government and changed it irrevocably. It passed a record number of bills into law and became the most successful reformist government in Australias history. This book brings to light ...Show more
The Road to Somewhere : The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics by David Goodhart
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the traditional politics of Left and Right, creating a new division: between the mobil ...Show more
All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power by Thomas Wright
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political
A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged on a model of liberal international order. Now, great p ...Show more
Threads by Kate Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
In the French port town of Calais, the historic home of the lace industry, a city within a city has arisen. This new town, known as the Jungle, is the home of thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, all hoping, somehow, to get to the UK. Into this squalid shantytown of shipping co ...Show more
The Pivot of Power: Australian Prime Ministers and Political Leadership, 1949-2016 by Paul Strangio
$50.00 AUD
Category: Political
The prime ministership remains the main prize in Australian politics, but it is a precarious one. Leadership turnover in recent years has seen more prime ministers rise and fall than at any time since the decade after federation. What explains this volatility? The Pivot of Power is the second volume in ...Show more