Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies’ return and the rise of television, to Goug ...Show more
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant by Paul Cleary
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A David-and-Goliath story set in the ancient landscape of the Pilbara In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built a global iron-ore giant generating $19 billion in revenue a year. But in its rush to develop, FMG has damaged and destroyed ancient Aborig ...Show more
Red White and Blown Is the US a Cult? by Guy Rundle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
From renowned journalist Guy Rundle, Red, White and Blown is a piercing and provocative investigation into the United States' resolute failure to reckon with its own divisions and blind spots. Interrogating the political events of the 2022 midterm elections as well as their cultural and historical backd ...Show more
The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality by Stuart Macintyre
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The award-winning account of the early years of communism in Australia, written by one of Australia's most highly regarded historians. Winner of The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 1998 Shortlisted for Best Australian History Book in the NSW Premier's History Awards 1998 In 1920, 26 men and women ...Show more
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 34: Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull by Annabel Crabb
$16.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay
Malcolm Turnbull has quite a job ahead of him as leader of the Liberal Party. How is he going so far? What can we expect in the years ahead? This is a scintillating look at Turnbull and the Liberals in opposition. It is based on extensive interviews with and observation of Turnbull, who emerges as a fas ...Show more
Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business by James Button
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
James Button spent a year writing speeches for Kevin Rudd. Before that, he reported on politics as a highly regarded journalist for Fairfax. But James also has politics in his blood: his father was the larger-than-life, street-fighting Senator John Button, who was a minister in the Hawke government. Gro ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 50: Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny by Anna Goldsworthy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard's misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched a n ...Show more
Downfall : How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart by Aaron Patrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
It's the biggest and most puzzling story in Australian politics: how did the Australian Labor Party go from a thumping win in 2007 to facing annihilation in the forthcoming election? Other books have pointed to a lack of coherent policies and an over-reliance on polls--all true--but as this book makes c ...Show more
Bad Pharma - How Medicine is Broken and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good sci ...Show more
Out of the Mountains by David Kilcullen
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us will be living by mid-century.
North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the controversial and isolated nation of North Korea. Posing as a university professor, Sweeney went undercover to gain unprecedented access to the world's most secret state. He ...Show more