Locked Out by Meredith Llewelyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Queensland residents, not in their home state at the time the Queensland government shut the border to the rest of Australia, were locked out of their homes. The losses were colossal. Income, savings, financial stability, homes, careers, dignity, time with dying loved ones. It will be remembered as a ti ...Show more
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means. 'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people f ...Show more
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato; Rosie Collington
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies’ reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte ...Show more
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
Megathreats: The Ten Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Reces ...Show more
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. 'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Voice of Russia Radio and heard that the Kre ...Show more
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own ...Show more
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day. Depicting a wonderful parade of d ...Show more
A Small Town in Ukraine - The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before.Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated- Krakowiec (Krah- ...Show more
2022: Reckoning with Power and Privilege by The Conversation, Michael Hopkin (ed.)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
As 2022 unfolded, we saw power manifest in its various guises: Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; the COVID pandemic and its international disruptions continued to shape lives globally and abortion laws changed monumentally in the US. In Australia, the power of voters changed the gove ...Show more
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Elite by Douglas Rushkoff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse- they want to leave us all behind.Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event- the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these m ...Show more
Girt by China: Power Play in the Pacific: Australian Foreign Affairs 17 by Jonathan Pearlman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What challenges does Australia face as the world's great powers battle for a foothold in the Pacific?The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the growing rivalry and increasing tension in the Pacific as it becomes a stage for a great-power contest to gain influence and a strategic positio ...Show more