Australia's Looming Energy Crisis: Can We Keep the Lights On? by Alan G. Lawrenson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The book is about Australias looming energy crisis. It looks at energy sources including coal, gas, hydro and pumped hydro, solar and onshore and offshore wind as well as long term energy storage. It reviews the critical minerals that Australia needs. The book is a detailed analysis of Australias loomin ...Show more
Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia's Sovereignty by Andrew Fowler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The spectacular fallout from Australia's duplicitous AUKUS deal Like all military acquisition programs worth billions of dollars, Australia's decision to buy a new submarine fleet was expected to be a torturous process. But no one could have predicted the trail of wreckage it left behind. From the boul ...Show more
ABBOTTAS DELIVERED: THE DEFINING SPEECHES by Paul Ritchie
$30.00 AUD
$43.95 (31% off)
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
This year we turn our attention to Tony Abbott's brief but productive period as Prime Minister. The influences of Menzies and Howardare clear, but so too is Abbott's literary skill, honed as a journalist. Like Menzies and Howard, Abbott achieved the remarkable task of leading his party out of opposition ...Show more
The Odd Couple: Re-configuring the America-Australia relationship by Allan Behm
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
America matters. Australia matters. They matter to each other. They matter to the world. Their institutional and structural alignments are deep and powerful. Americans believe in themselves. Australians believe in each other. They are mates. They are gregarious. Americans are single-minded and ambitious ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$36.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
American AmnesiaHow the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich by Jacob S. Hacker; Paul Pierson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
From the groundbreaking author team behind the bestselling Winner-Take-All Politics, a timely and topical work that examines what's good for American business and what's good for Americans--and why those interests are misaligned. In Winner-Take-All Politics, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explained ho ...Show more
The People V. the Democratic Party by Michael Walsh
$9.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Since the day Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers, the Democratic Party has been at war with America. With a history that includes murder, treason, slavery, segregation, sedition, bribery, and systemic vote theft, i ...Show more
Offshore : Behind the Wire on Nauru and Manus by Madeline Gleeson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012? This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of offshore processing since it recommenced in 2012. It explains why offshore processing was re ...Show more
Conspiracies: The Facts, The Theories, The Evidence by Andy Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
At any time in our history, you will find significant and seemingly indisputable events occurring, the kind that can change the course of our lives. Yet for every one of them, somebody, somewhere will loudly dispute the 'official' account, doubting that the truth has been told. In today's environment, w ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen. Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the "thicket of unreality" that is the American media. Behin ...Show more
Way Beyond Satire by Rowan Dean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Following the turbulent, crazy, roller-coaster years of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, by late 2013 Australians were looking forward to a steady new era of boring, conservative, grown-up government under Tony Abbott and his Coalition. Little did they know, the real fun had just begun. In this hilarious s ...Show more
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Andy Borowitz, "one of the funniest people in America" (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.The winner of the first-ever National Press Cl ...Show more