The Careless State: Reforming Australia's Social Services by Mark Considine
$34.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred model of reform has failed to adapt and improve.In t ...Show more
The Case for Courage (In the National Interest) by Kevin Rudd
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
For some time, Australia's democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation's major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It's tempting, but distracting, to point to the usual list of reasons, from the declining ca ...Show more
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world. Angela Merkel ...Show more
The Changing of the Guard: The British army since 9/11 by Simon Akam
$60.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A revelatory, explosive new analysis of the British military today--and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A must-read for anyone interested in these wars. Over the first two decades of the 21st century, the British Army fought two campaigns, in Iraq and Afghanistan, at enormous financial and considerabl ...Show more
The Coal Truth: The fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy by David Ritter; Hilary Bambrick (Contribution by); Geoffrey Cousins (Contribution by); Tara Moss (Foreword by); John Quiggin (Contribution by); Berndt Sellheim (Foreword by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Since 2012, the fight to stop the opening of the vast Galilee coal basin has emerged as an iconic pivot of the Australian climate and environment movement. The Coal Truth: the fight to stop Adani, defeat the big polluters and reclaim our democracy provides a timely and colourful contribution to one of t ...Show more
The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems by Sarah Maddison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy - from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition - government policies and programs have made little positive diffe ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Pocket Hardbacks by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Classics
A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whet ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto: Popular Penguins by Karl Marx
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Popular Penguins
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.
The Consul: An Insider Account from Australia's Diplomatic Frontline by Ian Kemish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An absorbing insider's account of leadership and service within Australia's Consular service, through tumultuous events including the September 11 attacks, the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day Tsunami.As head of Australia's consular service, Ian Kemish played a central role in the nation's response to s ...Show more
The Conversation Yearbook 2018 - 50 Standout Articles from Australia's Top Thinkers by John Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In an era when everyone has an opinion, we facts more than ever. Australia's leading thinkers give their robust opinion on the arguments and issues that fuelled public debate in 2018. This collection of essays brings you the best of the authoritative journalism for which The Conversationis renowned. I ...Show more
The Cost of Labour: How we are all trapped by the politics of pregnancy and parenting by Natalie Kon-Yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Natalie Kon-yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Rather than a woman with a health concern, the GPs, nurses and psychiatrists saw Natalie as a vessel carrying precious cargo. The loss of agency carried on through her pregnanc ...Show more
The Courage Of Hopelessness: Chronicles Of A Year Of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj Aixek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopele ...Show more