Has the Luck Run Out? The End of Old Australia by David Fagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Why have we lost trust in Australia? What's going wrong? What's going right? And what we can do to regain confidence in Australia's future? Why are Australians anxious and pessimistic? Who or what has caused our loss of trust in Australia? Why has a feeling of powerlessness crept in for so many? Has the ...Show more
What Makes Us Tick?: The ten desires that drive us by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Dr Mackay has spent a lifetime listening to people talk about their dreams, fears, hopes, disappointments and passions. As well, his bestselling books have documented the impact of the changes that have been radically reshaping our society. In WHAT MAKES US TICK? he reflects on some of the things that d ...Show more
We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and I ...Show more
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the truth. by Adele Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: Corporate Greed/Broken Governance Failed Aust.
Winner of the Davitt Award for Non-fiction Crime 2020 The shocking truth about Australia's financial institutions, as told by the journalist who did most to bring about Australia's banking royal commission. Against all the odds Australia ended up with a banking royal commission. Since hearings began i ...Show more
First Dog on the Moon's Guide to Living Through the Apocalypse and How to Stay Nice Doing It. by First Dog on the Moon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: very good
The only book you will ever need to read by Australia's best-loved marsupial-based cartoonist Join belovedcartoonist First Dog On the Moon in this tender frolic through the loomingcollapse of civilisation and the demise of everything you ever cared about.Never have so many worked so hard to bring about ...Show more
Destroying the Joint - Why Women Have to Change the World by Jane Caro (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
A fabulously provocative collection by women ready to destroy the joint. In 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said a society needs the political participation of women to reach its full potential. Commentator Allan Jones reacted to his by saying- 'Women are destroying the joint . . . Honestly.' People ...Show more
Still Lucky: Why you should feel optomistic about Australia and its people by Rebecca Huntley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
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This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Rise and Rise of Australian Feminism by Emily Maguire
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Women must quit their jobs when they marry. They are barred from trade unions and universities. Their husbands can legally rape them. And they are not allowed to vote. This could be the reality in Australia today — if it weren’t for the many women who, over more than a century of activism, fought for ch ...Show more
What Do We Want? The Story of Protest in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics | Series: Forwared by Germaine Greer
**NEW** In What Do We Want! Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia. He includes dedicated chapters on the peace movement, women's liberation, Indigenous rights, gay rights and the environmental mo ...Show more
Not Just Lucky by Jamila Rizvi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
'Feisty and inquisitive - a fresh take on modern feminist issues.' Julia GillardAustralian women are suffering from a crisis of confidence about work. Accustomed to being overlooked and undervalued, even when women do get to the top, they explain their success away as 'luck'. But it's not.Not Just Lucky ...Show more
Practical Ethics - 3rd edition by Peter Singer
$29.99 AUD
$50.95 (41% off)
Category: Current Affairs Politics
For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of th ...Show more
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz exposes the efforts ...Show more