Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff, including his receptionist. In 2006 the world's three biggest banana companies did nearly GBP400 million worth of business in Britain but paid just GBP128,000 in tax between th ...Show more
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev; Stephen Holmes; Anon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformati ...Show more
Redfern: Aboriginal activism in the 1970s by Johanna Perheentupa
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the 1970s the run-down inner-city suburb of Redfern was a gathering place for Aboriginal intellectuals and ambitious young radicals. Having fled poverty and segregation in rural Australia in the 1950s and 60s, they set about fulfilling their vision – a new way of living, where Aboriginal people could ...Show more
The Big Teal by Simon Holmes à Court
$19.95 AUD
Category: 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
With the Falling of the Dusk by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A deeply powerful, poetic and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of ...Show more
Trade Winds - A Sailing Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping by Christiaan De Beukelaer
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Almost everything you consume, from your weekly shop to the Christmas presents you ordered online, arrived by cargo ship. Shipping is the engine of the world economy, transporting 11 billion tonnes of goods each year. Despite an environmental crisis, shipping emissions have doubled since 1990, producing ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
How Spies Think - Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 'An invaluable guide to avo ...Show more
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ...Show more
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
The Nerves and Their Endings - Essays on Crisis and Response by Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
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Category: Current Affairs
The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress.In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we respond to crises.She draws parallels between an eati ...Show more
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more