The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means. 'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people f ...Show more
Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
When Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. 'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital ... has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani i ...Show more
Time of Our Lives: Celebrating Older Women by Maggie Kirkman
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Time of Our Lives presents the extraordinary lives of ordinary women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden. The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history? Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong ...Show more
Power & Consent by Rachel Doyle
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The scandal involving Dyson Heydon, former justice of the High Court, confirmed that the scourge of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces was also to be found in the chambers of one of the seven most senior judges in the country. An unquestioning reliance on the calibre of the fine legal minds appo ...Show more
Who Needs the ABC? Why Taking It For Granted is No Longer An Option by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. Its staffing levels have been cut. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with a succession of political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercia ...Show more
Plagued: Australia's two years of hell - the inside story by Simon Benson
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
This is the inside story of Australia’s two years of hell, when the country was besieged by crisis after crisis, and a rolling series of challenges and setbacks. Much of what took place behind the scenes will astonish the public. Plagued reveals how the critical decisions were actually made, decisions t ...Show more
The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
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
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know - And Many Others You Will Find Interesting by Ronald Bailey; Marian L. Tupy
$47.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know is a pleasure: gorgeous, self-contained vignettes on human progress, which you can sample at your leisure or devour in a sitting." --Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Think the world is gett ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, M ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", by Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft was british writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights (1759-1797).
It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Meaningful Constitutional Recognition and Reform by Megan Davis & Marcia Langton (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
It is a collection of short essays by leading and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander thinkers and leaders. Edited by and including contributions from Megan Davis and Marcia Langton, it conveys to Australians why indigenous peoples should have a direct say in the decisions that affect their l ...Show more