Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival by Anna Bligh
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An uplifting memoir of resilience and strength from ex-Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh. Anna Bligh knows something about hard knocks and high walls. She was raised by a single mother in the working class Gold Coast, a young girl with a soon-to-be-estranged dad who struggled with alcoholism. She spent ...Show more
The Spy Catchers: The Official History of Asio, 1949--1963 by David Horner
$59.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian HistoryFor the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of I ...Show more
Independents' Day: The inside story of the community independents and volunteers who changed Australian politics forever by Brook Turner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The full story of the independent candidates and community volunteers stormed previously safe Liberal seats at the 2022 federal election and created a revolution in Australian politics. As Australia headed into the 2022 election, the media focussed on the usual two-horse race. They ran photos of Scott ...Show more
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
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
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
The Boy from Baradine by Craig Emerson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
From the bush of Baradine to the corridors of Canberra, this is Craig Emerson's story of triumph and courage over adversity. In the mid-1960s, in the small town of Baradine in north-western New South Wales, the Emerson family was in continual crisis. The mother suffered from deep depression, and the fat ...Show more
A Certain Grandeur: Gough Whitlam's Life in Politics by Graham Freudenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Winner of the Age Book of the Year AwardGraham Freudenberg's inside account of Gough Whitlam's political rise and fall is one of the great classics of Australian political writing. From his position as Gough's speechwriter and confidant, just out of the spotlight of history, Freudenberg was an eyewitne ...Show more
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"Australia has always been reliant on great and powerful friends' for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policy—first on the British Empire and now on the United States. Australia has actively pursued a policy of strategic dependence, believing that making a grand bargain wi ...Show more
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
London, early May 1940- Britain is on the brink of war and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over at the helm, but in SIX MINUTES IN MAY Nicholas Shakespeare shows how easily events could have gone in a d ...Show more
The Party - The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics
China's Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, for the first time, Richard McGregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country - its military and media, legal system and businesses, ev ...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