A Rightful Place: A Road Map to Recognition by Noel Pearson, Shireen Morris
$27.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Soon we will all decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the Constitution. In this essential book, several leading writers and thinkers provide a road map to recognition. Starting with the Uluru Statement from the Heart, these eloquent essays show what constitutional recognition m ...Show more
A Sense of Balance by John Howard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future. In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect that sense of balan ...Show more
A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots str ...Show more
A Spy in Plain Sight - The Inside Story of America's Most Damaging Russian Spy and the Implications for National Security Today by Lis Wiehl
$42.99 AUD
Category: Politics
New York Times bestselling author and former federal prosecutor Lis Wiehl delivers a behind-the-scenes account of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, a church-going father of five, sold national security secrets to Russia for more than two decades--and how America's current political climate makes it still po ...Show more
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker; Carol D. Leonnig;
$27.26 AUD
Category: Politics
Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington DC, and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President Donald Trump has reinvented the presidency in his own image, shaken foreign alliances and tested American institutions. It would be all too easy to mistak ...Show more
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States by Eric D. Weitz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity Ser.
A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights-a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably de ...Show more
A Wunch of Bankers: A Year in the Hayne Royal Commission by Dan Ziffer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
It wasn't just its exhaustive rounds of hearings around the country - Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, and Sydney - on topics from farming finance to financial planning. It wasn't even the long list of scandals exposed to a horrified nation - charging fees to dead people, blatant conflicts of interest, and ...Show more
AND THEN WHAT?: Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy by Catherine Ashton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Ukraine, Iran and more to reveal how modern- day diplomacy really works.So much of modern-day diplomacy still takes place behind closed doors, away from cameras and prying eyes. So what does this vital role really loo ...Show more
Adam Smith - What He Thought and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent ad ...Show more
Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
$8.75 AUD
$34.99 (74% off)
Category: Politics
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
Advancing Human Rights by Michael Mintrom
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Human rights come into question in times of crisis. But should we wait for crises to arise before we discuss these rights? Advancing human rights should be everyone’s business, not just that of a select group of public interest lawyers, conspiracy theorists or those who prefer tinfoil hats.Human rights ...Show more
After the Fact? - The Truth about Fake News by Marcus Gilroy-Ware
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Why do we no longer trust facts, experts and statistics? In this essential guide to the turbulent times in which we live, Marcus Gilroy-Ware investigates our era of post-truths and fake news and answers the question of where we can go from here. We are supposed to have more information at our disposal n ...Show more