Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy by Symeon Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Discover the truth about the billion-dollar online economy that made the internet's best known stars. Being an influencer is now the top future career choice for children. What if you could spend your life adored by fans, receiving freebies and countless riches. What if you could bypass the worst job ma ...Show more
Keeping Them Honest: the case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms by Stephen Charles QC AO Charles, Catherine Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A revealing and compelling case by Australia's foremost integrity advocate for a strong national body to expose political corruption, uphold accountability, and restore trust - and why the country needs it now. Over the last few years, instances of the federal government spending taxpayers' money to ga ...Show more
Now More than Ever: Australia's ABC by David Anderson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest
Disregard the critics. Australia’s ABC, at ninety years of age, is demonstrably more valuable to Australians now than it has ever been. The ABC’s home-grown Managing Director, David Anderson, gives us a rare insight into the ABC he knows intimately: a cultural powerhouse where Australian identity is cel ...Show more
Crown: Playing in the Shadows by Tom Ravlic
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The dark reality of what really happened behind the bright lights and sounds of the casino floor. Crown is a case study in a decaying corporate culture with celebrities, former politicians, corporate governance failures, tax dodges, and casino junkets tailor-made for colourful gambling identities. It ex ...Show more
Jackpot - How the Super-Rich Really Live by Michael Mechanic
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit--and the insidious ways this realm harms us all. Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of Ameri ...Show more
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, "an essential book for our times" (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech's breakneck race to drive engagement--and profits--at all costs fractured the world We all have a vague sense that social media ...Show more
2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by John C Lennox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
You don't have to be a computer scientist to get involved in the discussion about where artificial intelligence and technology are going. What will the year 2084 hold for you--for your friends, for your family, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell's 1984? I ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
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Category: Current Affairs
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
Loud and Proud by Tea Uglow
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Loud and Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community that have changed our world, and the conversation. "Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start." --Jason Collins, first openly gay athlete in US pro sportsA sister volume to So Here I Am ...Show more
Waiting for Gonski: How Australia failed its schools by Tom Greenwell, Chris Bonnor
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Why is education in Australia failing?Where did we go wrong, and how do we fix it?The Gonski Review appeared to represent a breakthrough. Commissioned by Prime Minster Julia Gillard and chaired by leading businessman David Gonski, the 2010 review made clear that school education policy wasn’t working, a ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
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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
Who Needs the ABC? Why Taking It For Granted is No Longer An Option by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. Its staffing levels have been cut. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with a succession of political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercia ...Show more