Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny
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Category: Essays
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It’s a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. It’s a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is risi ...Show more
What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics by Andrew Leigh
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Category: Political / Economic
Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism is making them worse. Did you know that you're more likely to die from a catastrophe than in a car crash? The odds that a typical US resident will die from a catastrophic event--for example, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or out- ...Show more
The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot by Yolande Strengers; Jenny Kennedy
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Category: Essays
The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and some ...Show more
Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy by Richard Denniss
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | 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
The Socialist Manifesto - The Case for Radical Politics in an era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara
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Category: Essays
The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a socialist system look like today? In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin magazine ...Show more
The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal by Duncan Mavin
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Category: Political / Economic
An epic true story of ambition, greed and hubris that nearly brought down the British government.In March 2021, an obscure financial technology company called Greensill Capital collapsed, going into administration. As it unravelled, a multibillion-dollar scandal emerged that would shake the very foundat ...Show more
Ego: Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party's Civil War by AARON PATRICK
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Category: Political / Economic
Malcolm Turnbull's campaign against Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party is one of the greatest acts of revenge in Australian political history. This account explores the egos, deception and thwarted power that has left a trail of personal destruction across the political world. Friends have been turned ...Show more
Admissions: Voices within mental health by David Stavanger, Radhiah Chowdhury, Mohammad Award
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
An unprecedented look at the lived experience of mental health in creative work, as told by writers, comedians and public figures We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill.This groundbreaking collection documents the state of mental health in Australia, foregrounding a wide range of voice ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 88: Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics by Katharine Murphy
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Category: Political / Economic
A portrait of a leader in the making, and a nation on the move. In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion - a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation. Are Albanese and his party up for change? Are Australians u ...Show more
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labour Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
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Category: Sociology
'Chokepoint Capitalism tells us how the vampires crashed the party, and provides protective garlic.'-Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the ...Show more
Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China’s past, prese ...Show more
The Teal Revolution: Inside the Movement Changing Australian Politics by Margot Saville
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Category: Political / Economic | 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