Keating by Kerry O'Brien
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of poli ...Show more
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern classic, The Beauty Myth. Vagina: A New Biography combi ...Show more
My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
The Gospel According to Paul by Jonathan Biggins
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Keating had a deadly wit and an ego the size of Everest. But he was also a remarkable politician, and we can learn much from him about the art and craft of politics.Paul Keating was, above all, a politician with a vision for the country but he was also a master of the theatre of politics, skewering his ...Show more
Ego: Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberal Party's Civil War by AARON PATRICK
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
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
The Thinking Woman by Julienne Van Loon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
One of the age-old questions of philosophy is whatdoes it mean to live a good life? In this extraordinary book, scholar and writer, Julienne van Loon, applies a range of philosophical ideas to her own experience. Van Loon engages with the work of six leading contemporary thinkers and writers -- Rosi Bra ...Show more
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Rise and Rise of Australian Feminism by Emily Maguire
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
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
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship by Clementine Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her ...Show more
Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs by Julia Banks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world, from the trailblazing Julia Banks.Julia Banks shocked Australia when in 2018 she announced she would stand as an independent MP, resigning from the Coalition Government's Liberal Party, having experienc ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more
The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
How has Greece shaped the world we live in today, and what can we learn from its history?The story of Greece is our story. Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers - our world has been shaped by the products of Greek civilisation. Yet most of us know little about a people and a place that ha ...Show more
Merle Thornton: Bringing the Fight by Merle Thornton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
An engaging, lively, provocative and, above all, inspiring memoir from one of our home-grown, unsung feminist heroes, Merle Thornton, who has lived a life full of daring, defiance and activism. Merle Thornton is one of Australia's most delightful, formidable and game-changing pioneering feminists - ...Show more