The Reith Papers by Peter K. Reith
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Peter Reith was a senior federal Cabinet minister from 1996 to 2001. He was the face of the Coalition government's tough waterfront reforms, a major contributor to the Fightback! policy, a potential leader of the Liberal Party, the architect of sweeping industrial laws and defence minister during the ti ...Show more
Margaret and Gough - The Love Story That Shaped a Nation by Susan Mitchell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Gough had no small talk, Margaret had the gift of easy conversation. He was often ill-at-ease in company and preferred his books. She was warm, inclusive and jollied him along. He had a vicious tongue and a quick temper. She always tried to see the best in people. He knew everything about the ideology, ...Show more
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
$49.99 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 policyandmdash;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 ba ...Show more
Speechless A Year In My Father's Business by James Button
$27.95 AUD
Category: Politics
James Button spent a year writing speeches for Kevin Rudd. Before that, he reported on politics as a highly regarded journalist for Fairfax. But James also has politics in the blood: his father was the diminutive but larger-than-life Senator John Button, who was a minister in the Hawke and Keating gover ...Show more
Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder by Amy W. Knight
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Ever since Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia, his critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin's reign that even includes terr ...Show more
Abbott's Right by Damien Freeman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Tony Abbott may have been a Rhodes Scholar, but some commentators are convinced that he offered nothing more than three-word slogans. Abbott's Right challenges this perception, and presents Abbott as someone who rejoices in the political battle of ideas. It looks at how the contemporary conservative voi ...Show more
A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama by Michael D'Antonio
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Obama's campaign for the White House made the senator from Chicago a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure of hope. Elected after the Iraq War and the Great Recession had driven millions of Americans to despair, he quickly passed an economic recovery act and a program to save the U.S. auto ind ...Show more
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
$36.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, now with a 40th anniversary Afterword on the legacies of Watergate and Richard Nixon. This is the book that changed America. Published just months befor ...Show more
The Independent Effect - Parliamentary Contributions from the Crossbenches in Australia by Andréa Cullen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Democracy without political parties would not be possible. Do independent politicians have relevance and influence in a political system as well? What do independents have to offer a parliamentary democracy?This is a book about independent politicians and why they matter in a parliamentary democracy-wit ...Show more
John McEwen: right man, right place, right time - Bridget McKenzie by Mckenzie Bridget
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disas ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky Edward S Herman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals ...Show more