Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War; Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America by Hugh White
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Category: Politics
Is the US-Australia alliance now based on a fantasy? In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia's fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position - what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? White considers t ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
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Category: Politics
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly
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Category: Politics
What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morrison. In a time of uncertainty, the country chose in 2019 to turn to a man with no obvious beliefs, no clear purpose and no famous talents. That we wanted Scott Morrison was the secret we did not know about ou ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: Politics
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
The Teal Revolution: Inside the Movement Changing Australian Politics by Margot Saville
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Category: Politics | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
The Teal Revolution is essential reading on the unprecedented Teal wave of the 2022 election, a movement with the potential to change Australian politics. From experienced political journalist Margot Saville, this is the fourth book in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. In the 2 ...Show more
Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Voice to Parliament by Peter Kurti and Nyunggai Warren Mundine
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Category: Politics
Forty-four attempts have been made to change the Australian Constitution since Federation in 1901 but only eight of those attempts have been successful. In 2022, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese decided to launch another attempt at constitutional amendment. His intention: to hold a referendum proposing t ...Show more
Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy by Richard Denniss
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Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Scott Morrison wants to spend a lot more money on defence, the business community wants more spending on infrastructure and education, an ageing population wants better health and aged care, and young Australians want more action on climate change and affordable housing. Each problem requires more publi ...Show more
Keating by Kerry O'Brien
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Category: Politics
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of poli ...Show more
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit by Bernard Keane
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Category: Politics | Series: The\Critical Take Ser.
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Governmentand The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first i ...Show more
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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Category: Politics
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
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
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Category: Politics
The final work of Robert Fisk, following on from the authoritative and highly acclaimed The Great War for Civilisation, which charted his 30-year career as a reporter in the war zones of the Middle East. An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitne ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
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Category: Politics
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more