You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech by Dennis Baron
$37.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into hist ...Show more
The Exquisite Art of Getting Even PB by Alexander McCall Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The characters in this delicious book are pushed to the point of no return and seek retribution. But how we get even is not always the best road to redemption. On the island of Mull, it takes an incomer to make the locals realise that they need to take matters into their own hands to maintain the commun ...Show more
The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power Are Undermined - and How to Fight Back by Sophie Williams
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
‘The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.’ Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories of women in business leadership? Or maybe you’ve wondered what life is really like on the other side of The Glass Ceiling? ...Show more
The Big Teal by Simon Holmes à Court
$2.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The May 2022 election marked the great re-engagement of those ignored and patronised for too long on climate, integrity and gender equity. The electoral map has been dramatically redrawn. However, the triumph of the 'teals' was not entirely unexpected to those assisting their rise, such as Climate 200 f ...Show more
Hear Them Roar by Elizabeth Fysh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
It’s a marvellous collection of inspiring stories from some of Australia’s most soul-stirring women; an eye-opening window into astonishing lives built on strength of character and an independent spirit. From medical professionals who achieved astonishing success with ground-breaking methods, to a cele ...Show more
Democracy Awakening - Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading Americans into authoritarianism and creating a disaffected population.Many books tel ...Show more
Zelensky - A Biography by Serhii Rudenko; Michael M. Naydan (Translator); Alla Perminova (Translator)
$41.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country's courageous and bloody struggle against a brutal invasion. Born to Jewish paren ...Show more
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live, the first post-pandemic book to take our latest measurements and provide something fresh to comfort, embolden, enlighten and enrich who we are today' LISA TADDEO Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride. These so-called 'deadly sins', conse ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice by Anne Manne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A searing expose of institutional child abuse, and the remarkable story of the survivors who would not be silenced For many years, Newcastle was the centre of an extensive paedophile network run by members of the Anglican church - and protected by parishioners and community members who looked the other ...Show more
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels wit ...Show more
The Silo by Hugh Watson
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Hugh Watson’s second novel The Silo, is a compelling thriller set in the brutal world of country politics. In The Silo, Hugh draws on his country roots and political background to immerse readers in a story about corruption, blackmail, murder and shadowy international investment. Intuitive Sydney detect ...Show more