Paul Keating by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"Drawing on extensive interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the last days of the Whit ...Show more
Subtle Moments: Scenes on a Life's Journey by Bruce Grant
$34.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Bruce Grant was raised in outback Western Australia but lived and worked at or near the centre of power in Australia for several decades, as journalist and foreign correspondent, diplomat, and advisor to governments from Menzies to Whitlam to Hawke and Keating. He spent periods researching and teaching ...Show more
Party Thieves by Barrie Cassidy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Barrie Cassidy picked a hell of an election to cover: changes of leaders on both sides of politics, Australia's first woman Prime Minister, a hung parliament and a country not knowing who its Prime Minister was for nearly three weeks. But in the beginning were the Party Thieves, Malcolm Turnbull and Kev ...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
Through the Wall by Anna Bligh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'This is a personal account of life at the top that will charm the general reader and the political tragic alike' Weekend Australian 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 da ...Show more
A Matter of Principle by Conrad Black
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it."--Conrad Black, in his statement to the court, June 24, 2011 In 1993, Conrad Black was the proprietor of London's "Daily Telegra ...Show more
Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott by Andrew P Street
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Poor people don't drive cars. People have the right to be bigots. I'm a fixer. Team Australia. Shirtfonting. Choppergate. Stop the boats. Coal is good for humanity. No cuts to health. Sir Prince Philip. The flags. It's all the fault of the febrile media. And that whole onion thing.In August 2013, Austra ...Show more
Unholy Fury the US Alliance and the Whitlam-Nixon Crisis by James Curran
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In the early 1970s, two titans of Australian and American politics-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and President Richard Nixon-clashed over the end of the Vietnam war and the shape of a new Asia. A relationship that had endured the heights of the Cold War veered dangerously off course and seemed headed for ...Show more
Australian Leader Eats Raw Onion Whole: The Government that broke satire in Headlines! by Evan Williams (Compiled by)
$9.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The story of Team Australia in headlines. Inspired by the Onion, Evan Williams searched high and low for the real news headlines that capture the hilarious hypocrisy and absurdity of the Abbott years. What he found poses the question- was this Australia's maddest ever government? You be the judge . . . ...Show more
Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency (HB) by Bill O'Reilly
$44.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From the team of Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, bestselling authors of the blockbuster Killing series, now comes Killing Reagan. This page-turning epic account of the career of President Ronald Reagan tells the vivid story of his rise to power -- and the forces of evil that conspired to bring him down ...Show more
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
Everything You Need to Know About the Referendum to Recognise Indigenous Australians by George Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This book explains everything that Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution. It details how our Constitution was drafted, and shows how Aboriginal peoples came to be excluded from the new political settlement. It explains what the 1967 referendum - ...Show more