The Teal Revolution: Inside the Movement Changing Australian Politics by Margot Saville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
The Teal Revolution is essential reading on the unprecedented Teal wave of the 2022 election, a movement with the potential to change Australian politics. From experienced political journalist Margot Saville, this is the fourth book in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. In the 2 ...Show more
Courting Power: Law, Democracy & the Public Interest in Australia by Isabelle Reinecke
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Courts aren’t just there to settle divorces, sentence law-breakers and resolve corporate disputes. A healthy legal system, one that ensures access, transparency and accountability, is fundamental to democracy. When the system works, the courts act as a check on government power, holding our politicians ...Show more
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies’ return and the rise of television, to Goug ...Show more
#MenToo by Bettina Arndt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 2018, the #MeToo campaign took the world by storm, drawing attention to women's stories of sexual abuse and misconduct. #MenToo tells the other side of the story. Collected in one volume are Bettina Arndt's articles on men's issues, rights and representation covering twenty years, with footnotes to p ...Show more
Rigged: How Networks of Powerful Mates Rip Off Everyday Australians by Paul Frijters, Cameron Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The shocking story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, and managed to rob the majority of ordinary Australians of half our wealth. 'This book will open your eyes to how Australia really works. It's not good news, but you need to know it.' - Ross Gittins 'You'll be sho ...Show more
Tissue by Madison Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What does it mean to terminate a pregnancy? In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to the topic of abortion in a meditative and personal look at a procedure that is common yet vilified, championed yet sometimes grieved. Tissue looks at the feelings of guilt around choice, exploring the languag ...Show more
En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young
$14.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking, why didn’t she just fight back? Afte ...Show more
Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs: An Antidote for Short-Termism by Ari Wallach
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A paradigm-shifting manifesto for transforming our thinking from reactionary short-termism to the long-term, widening our scope beyond today, tomorrow, and to even five hundred years from now to reclaim meaning in our lives.Many of the problems we face today, from climate change to work anxiety, are the ...Show more
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination to work out how to make things better.'Australia's unprecedented run of economic growth has failed to deliver a more stable or harmoni ...Show more
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live, the first post-pandemic book to take our latest measurements and provide something fresh to comfort, embolden, enlighten and enrich who we are today' LISA TADDEO Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride. These so-called 'deadly sins', conse ...Show more
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A frank, funny and galvanising exploration of masculinity, and a manifesto for male allyship, from million-copy bestseller and feminist powerhouse Caitlin Moran. As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' ...Show more
After the Internet by Ramesh Srinivasan
$33.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: x
In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combatted various forms of political and social inequality, it is time we ask: What comes after a broken internet? Ramesh Srinivasan and Adam Fish reimagine the internet from the perspective of grassroo ...Show more