Freedom's Salesman by David Leyonhjelm
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Collection of previously published and delivered articles and speeches covering: Becoming a poltician; balancing the Budget; tax and superannuation; minimum wage; free trade; child care and health care; the Nanny State; same-sex marriage; terrorism; free speech; environment and conservation, and much mo ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It by Alan Kohler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & 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
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
The Many-Sided Triangle - Adoption in Australia by Audrey Marshall; Margaret McDonald
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A history of adoption in Australia, examining its law and practice. It considers why adoption reached a peak of popularity in the early 1970s, and looks at the drama of adoption from the viewpoint of all the participants, including workers in the various systems. Case studies are included.
Behind the Lines : The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2016 by Museum of Australian Democracy
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2016 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
Chasing the Scream The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. And the war on drugs is not what we see on our TV screens. In Chasing the Scream, Johann Hari shares his discoveries through the riveting true stories he uncovered on a 30,000-mile journey - from th ...Show more
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson, Patricia Drum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their fascination with the brutal RudduGillard struggle as enduring as the saga itself. This is the book that brings you the uncut version of The Killing Season, taking you behind the cameras to reveal the untold stories and candid moments that ...Show more
Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven g ...Show more