Incorrigible Optimist (HB) by Gareth Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A colourful and central figure in Australian politics for two decades-described by Bob Hawke as having 'the most acute mind' of any of his ministers-Gareth Evans has also been applauded worldwide for his contributions, both as Foreign Minister and in later international roles, to conflict resolution, ge ...Show more
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature for his personal writing and cautioning against a powerful Soviet Russia in his l ...Show more
Pauline: In Her Own Words by Pauline Lee Hanson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Pauline: In Her Own Words tracks the seminal speeches and contributions of one Australia's most provocative political figures. The book comprises Pauline Hanson's speeches through the years as she takes back the leadership of One Nation, articulates the policy positions designed to voice concerns of a p ...Show more
Democracy and its Crisis by A C Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
Cardinal - The Rise and Fall of George Pell by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
George Pell is the most recognisable face of the Australian Catholic Church. He was the Ballarat boy with the film-star looks who studied at Oxford and rose through the ranks to become the Vatican's indispensable 'Treasurer'. As an outspoken defender of church orthodoxy, 'Big George's' ascendancy within ...Show more
Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers by Chris Wallace
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.In 2011, Chris Wallace was writing a biography of Julia Gillard. After seeing the unparalleled onslaught from the Abbott opposition, she cancelled her contract and repaid her advance with the awareness of how ...Show more
ZOV: Lies and Corruption Within Putin's War in Ukraine by Pavel Filatyev
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'A bombshell ... until now, there has been no more detailed, voluntary account from a Russian soldier participating in the invasion of Ukraine' GuardianPavel Filatyev was a paratrooper in the Russian army that invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Part of the invasion force that shelled the city of Kherson, ...Show more
The Gospel According to Paul by Jonathan Biggins
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Keating had a deadly wit and an ego the size of Everest. But he was also a remarkable politician, and we can learn much from him about the art and craft of politics.Paul Keating was, above all, a politician with a vision for the country but he was also a master of the theatre of politics, skewering his ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Dealing with the mafia, the Clintons and Trump: In A Higher Loyalty former FBI director James Comey details his experiences with some of the most important cases in USA history. In his Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of t ...Show more
We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and I ...Show more
Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power by Joel Deane
$32.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Power is the only measure of a politician that matters. How they win power. How they wield power. How they lose power. Catch and Kill is an inside account of the beguiling and nomadic nature of the unholy trinity of politics - the winning, the wielding, the losing. Taking us into the inner sanctum of st ...Show more
Planet Jackson - Power, greed & unions by Brad Norington
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Kathy Jackson was hailed as a heroine for blowing the whistle on the million-dollar fraud of Michael Williamson, the corrupt boss of the Health Services Union. While remaining steadfast in this very public ordeal, she endured bitter personal attacks from enemies in the Labor Party and the union movement ...Show more