Cadre Country How China became the Chinese Communist Party by John Fitzgerald
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation’s 40 million cadres – the managers and government officials em ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Australian Politics for Dummies by Nick Economou; Zareh Ghazarian
$39.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: For Dummies
Understand the Australian political system and make your vote count! Get to grips with the good, the bad and the ugly of Australian politics. Whether you're a seasoned political punter or a voting novice, this is your essential guide to understanding politics in Australia. Master the ins and outs of ele ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Ten years on from the speech that stopped us all in our tracks – Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech. Where were you then? And where are we now? Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did pla ...Show more
Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's Fatal Alliance with the United States by Emma Shortis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In Our Exceptional Friend, Emma Shortis draws on history, current affairs and questions of morality to mount a compelling and unique case as to why Australia's relationship with the United States needs a serious overhaul. Australians are told that we have two choices in this world: the United States, or ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky Edward S Herman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals ...Show more
Inside the Greens: The True Story of the Party, the Politics and the People by Paddy Manning
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A revelatory examination of the history and the future of the Australian Greens. After a decade of unprecedented political volatility, Australians appear increasingly disillusioned with the two major parties. Yet the Greens, the third force in Australian politics since the turn of the century, get comp ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
$14.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Musician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ord ...Show more
The Killing in the Consulate - Investigating the Life and Death of Jamal Khashoggi by Jonathan Rugman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Reporting at its best. Immaculately researched, sober and informative' John le Carré'Compulsory reading...fast-paced and brilliantly written' Jeremy BowenAfter Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was filmed going in to the Saudi consulate in Turkey, he was never seen alive again. What happened ...Show more
Marrul: Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for Rights by Inala Cooper
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
What does reconciliation and truth-telling look like, and how do we as a nation find justice for Indigenous people?In this deeply personal work, Inala Cooper shares stories of her family to show the impact of colonisation on the lives of Aboriginal people from the 1940s to now. She reveals the struggles ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War; Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America by Hugh White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Is the US-Australia alliance now based on a fantasy? In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia's fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position - what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? White considers t ...Show more