Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The twenty-first century's great geopolitical contest has begun. A major trade war has broken out. American and Chinese naval vessels are having close encounters in the South China Sea. American congressmen and businessmen are cheering their government's public attacks on China. China is standing firm a ...Show more
Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers by Chris Wallace
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.In 2011, Chris Wallace was writing a biography of Julia Gillard. After seeing the unparalleled onslaught from the Abbott opposition, she cancelled her contract and repaid her advance with the awareness of how ...Show more
The Dismissal by Troy Bramston; Paul Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
"Forty years on, the dismissal remains one of the most damaging and controversial events in Australian politics. This groundbreaking book by two of our leading journalists provides a startling reinterpretation of events. It tells the story of the clash between extraordinary personalities- two political ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2019 by Museum of Australian Democracy (Produced by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2019 celebratesanother year in Australia's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition ofpolitical cartooning. No politician, party or policy is safe from the nation'sbest cartoonists; witty, powerful or ribald, their images offer an astutelyobserved journ ...Show more
A Warning: A Senior Trump Administration Official by Anonymous
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power by David Crowe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power. They plotted. They schemed. They unleashed chaos. Australia lost two prime ministers in three years in a period of political bloodshed that took the nation' ...Show more
American Kompromat - How the KGB cultivated Donald trump and related tales of sex, greed, power and treachery by Craig, Unger
$47.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Kompromat n.--Russian for "compromising information" This is a story of dirty secrets, and the most powerful people in the world. Craig Unger's new book, American Kompromat, tells of the spies and salacious events underpinning men's reputations and riches. It tells how a relatively insignificant targeti ...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 boule ...Show more
The Spymasters by Chris Whipple
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office. Only 14 men a ...Show more
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Based on a series of extensive interviews - and now revised and updated to reflect current events - Media Tarts provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of a generation of prominent female politicians on the Australian political system and explores the part played by the press in their downfall. ' ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more