Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating, PM by Don Watson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
If he had never become Prime Minister, Paul Keating's place in Australian history would still have been assured. He was the Treasurer who deregulated the economy; the weaver of Labor's modern story; its heavy weapon in the parliament. He was also the great enigma - a self-educated boy from Sydney's work ...Show more
Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
The remarkable story of how Israel used sabotage, assassination, cyberwar--and diplomacy--to thwart Iran's development of nuclear weapons, in the process reshaping the Middle East.Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facil ...Show more
Australian Prime Ministers by Michelle Grattan
$50.00 AUD
Category: Politics
This book includes the completed chapter on Tony Abbott, who served as Prime Minister for just on two years from 2013 to 2015. With a revised introduction and updated lists of prime ministerial records and achievements, Australian Prime Ministers reveals the stories behind those men - and one woman - wh ...Show more
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and f ...Show more
Australian Politics for Dummies by Nick Economou; Zareh Ghazarian
$39.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: For Dummies
Understand the Australian political system and make your vote count! Get to grips with the good, the bad and the ugly of Australian politics. Whether you're a seasoned political punter or a voting novice, this is your essential guide to understanding politics in Australia. Master the ins and outs of ele ...Show more
Promise Me Dad by Joe Biden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. The Thanksgiving holiday was a time to connect, a time ...Show more
Rebel With a Cause: Jacqui Lambie Memoir by Jacqui Lambie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Outspoken, unexpected and refreshingly honest - the candid memoir of Jacqui Lambie. 'You can't keep a bloody Lambie down' Jacqui Lambie in a radio interview, 14th November 2017 Jacqui Lambie has always stood out from the mainstream of Australian politicians - even in the announcement of her retirement f ...Show more
Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose by Peter Monteath
$39.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors. More than any other injustice, the abuse of Aborigines leads him into the Communist Party i ...Show more
Crocs in the Cabinet: Northern Territory politics an instruction manual on how NOT to run a government by Ben Smee, Chistopher A Walsh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the Northern Territory, politics isn't a numbers game, it's a blood sport. The recent goings-on in Top End politics make the Rudd, Gillard, Abbott and Turnbull skirmishes in Canberra look positively civil and Bronwyn Bishop's travel expenses like small change. Not since the night Malcolm Fraser lost ...Show more
Now More than Ever: Australia's ABC by David Anderson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest
Disregard the critics. Australia’s ABC, at ninety years of age, is demonstrably more valuable to Australians now than it has ever been. The ABC’s home-grown Managing Director, David Anderson, gives us a rare insight into the ABC he knows intimately: a cultural powerhouse where Australian identity is cel ...Show more
A Sense of Balance by John Howard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
On how our sense of balance has defined us as a nation and will safeguard our future. In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia; to appreciate its strengths and weaknesses; and most importantly to respect that sense of balan ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy by Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate - and the threats it now faces.In a healthy democracy we need the capacity to disagree. Yet Aly and Stephens note a growing tendency to dismiss and exile opponents, to treat them with contemp ...Show more