Pills, Powder, and Smoke: Inside the bloody war on drugs by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The War on Drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have included mass incarceration in the US, extreme violence in different p ...Show more
So Greek: Confessions of a Conservative Leftie by Niki Savva
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
From one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery comes a rare account of life as a political insider. Born in a small village in Cyprus, Niki Savva spent her childhood in Melbourne's working-class suburbs -- frontiers where locals were suspicious of olive oil, and Greek kids spo ...Show more
Breaking The Banks by Joseph Healy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What was once an industry built on trust, professionalism and value, has become synonymous with greed, complacency and everything that has gone wrong with capitalism. So how did Australian banks, which avoided much of the aftermath of the GFC, lose their way and become engulfed in scandal?Breaking the B ...Show more
Party Animals: The Secret History of a Labor Fiasco by Samantha Maiden
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Labor Party was the unbeatable favourite to win the 2019 election right up until the polls closed and voters delivered the shock verdict. If the results surprised pundits, they also shocked Bill Shorten and his frontbench who had spent the final weeks of the campaign carefully planning for their fir ...Show more
How to Sell A Massacre by Peter Charley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
By the mastermind who infiltrated the NRA and One Nation and based on the award-winning documentary seen on ABC TVIn 2019, the ABC aired an explosive investigative documentary entitled How to Sell a Massacre. The result of an audacious three-year infiltration of the US National Rifle Association, the do ...Show more
How to Win an Election by Chris Wallace
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The 2019 Australian election produced a surprise result showing, not for the first time, that every election is there for the taking – including the next one. Here are the ten steps to winning an election. We have a democracy that performs relatively well, but many Australian elections are very clo ...Show more
Labor People: The Stories of Six True Believers by Chris Bowen
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics
How much do you know about the history of Australia’s oldest political party, the Australian Labor Party? You know the big names: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke and Keating. But what about the names behind the big names? The unsung and overlooked True Believers who have been the backbone of the Labor P ...Show more
Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Quintin Hoare (Translator); Christopher Bertram (Notes by, Introduction by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A lively new translation of Rousseau's best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract, a work of political philosophy that has stirred vigorous debate ever since ...Show more
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and the New Culture of Deceit by Bernard Keane
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Critical Take Ser.
Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Governmentand The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-opening dossier of Scott Morrison's documented lies with Keane's insightful take on why deceivers dominate in the new era of politics. This book is the first i ...Show more
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Graphic Edition) by Timothy Snyder
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny, the New York Times bestselling guide to protect democracy and resist modern-day authoritarianism. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism. From Nazism to communism, these were movements in which a leader or a party claimed ...Show more
The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morrison. In a time of uncertainty, the country chose in 2019 to turn to a man with no obvious beliefs, no clear purpose and no famous talents. That we wanted Scott Morrison was the secret we did not know about ou ...Show more
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Tom Nichols
$27.95 AUD
Category: Politics
People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any ...Show more