From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting (TP) by Judith Brett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
It's compulsory to vote in Australia. We are one of a handful of countries in the world that enforce this rule at election time, and the only English-speaking country that makes its citizens vote. Not only that, we embrace it. We celebrate compulsory voting with barbeques and cake stalls at polling stat ...Show more
Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's Fall and Anthony Albanese's Rise by Niki Savva
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie Oakes Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Austra ...Show more
It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Meaningful Constitutional Recognition and Reform by Megan Davis & Marcia Langton (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
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
Unf*ck Your Finances by Melissa Browne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Start making smart decisions. Free yourself from the financial fog.Take control of your money.Unf*cking your finances will change your life. With a step-by-step approach, including a 30-day financial detox, money mindfulness plan and goal-setting exercises, this book provides everything you need to deve ...Show more
The Storm Before the Calm - America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond by George Friedman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
An illuminating, provocative new book by the master geopolitical forecaster and New York Times bestselling author of The Next 100 Years. George Friedman turns to the future of the United States, predicting that the 2020s will bring dramatic upheaval and reshaping of government, foreign policy, economics ...Show more
The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
At the heart of this title is Senator Obama's vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outs ...Show more
Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decis ...Show more
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: near fine
Lionel Shriver: "We praise too many writers for being “brave,” but with The Strange 'Death of Europe' Douglas Murray put himself in such potentially physical peril that he keeps his itineraries and address under wraps. Compellingly readable and lucidly argued, this is a thoughtful, meticulously resear ...Show more
When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques
$26.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and culture. To this end, he introduces a powerful se ...Show more
Screw Business as Usual by Sir Richard Branson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Can we bring more meaning to our lives and help change the world at the same time? Richard Branson, at his brilliant and motivating best, reveals how with his exciting new vision for the future. It is time to turn capitalism upside down - to shift our values, to switch from a profit focus to caring for ...Show more
Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions ...Show more
Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam by Mark Curtis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
This updated edition of "Secret Affairs" covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the military intervention on the side of Libyan rebel forces whic ...Show more