Human Rights Overboard
Linda Briskman, Susie Latham and Chris Goddard

$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a ... More »

Mike's Election Guide
Michael Moore

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Democracy. It's easily the best system in the world, ever. Which is why so amny countries are desperate to have it enforced on them by soldiers!

Michael Moore is back to give you the low-down on the ins and outs of free ... More »

My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees And The Stories They Told Me
Mahvish Rukhsana Khan

$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )

Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their ... More »

The Blogging Revolution
Antony Loewenstein

$32.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )

In many countries, internet censorship has become one of the key human rights issues of the twenty-first century.

Best-selling author Antony Loewenstein conducts a searching examination of the ways the internet is threat... More »

Eating Between The Lines: Food And Equality In Australia
Rebecca Huntley

$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )

We live in an age of gastronomic soul-searching. Why is childhood obesity on the rise, especially among the poor? Is the traditional family dinner really dying out – and if so, does it matter? Jamie Oliver and Bill Grang... More »

The Racket
Gideon Haigh

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan )

A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets.

The Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of in... More »