Search results for Robert Manne
Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation
$16.95 – CD-Extra / Bolinda Publishing
In the third Quarterly Essay for 2011, Robert Manne investigates the forces that shape public debate in Australia. When it comes to key issues for the nation, who sets the media agenda and how do they do it? Buy or find out more→
The Words That Made Australia: How a Nation Came to Know Itself
$29.99 – Paperback / Black Inc.
This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements – from... Buy or find out more→
Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation
$19.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of the press? In Bad News, Robert Manne investigates Murdoch’s lead political voice here,... Buy or find out more→
Goodbye To All That On The Failure Of Neoliberalism And The Urgency Of Change
$32.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Explores what the global financial crisis means for Australia. Looks past 'neo-liberalism' and 'economic rationalism' and asks what kind of social democracy we might hope for in the future. Are the heady days of deregulation and... Buy or find out more→
Left Right Left
$34.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Gathers the fruits of a lifetime of political and cultural debate: from the Cold War to the Iraq War, from the stolen generations to the asylum seekers, from Australian party politics to the culture wars. There is also an array of... Buy or find out more→
Making Trouble Essays Against The New Australian Complacency
$34.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne. This is a book that will enlighten and provoke. It covers much ground from Howard to Gillard by way of Rudd, from Victoria's... Buy or find out more→
Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power
$32.99 – Paperback / Allen & Unwin
When Rupert Murdoch called, Prime Ministers and Presidents picked up the phone. David McKnight exposes Murdoch's unflinching use of his media empire to further his political agenda over decades. This is the story behind the... Buy or find out more→
Dreaming And Other Essays
$13.00 – Paperback / Black Inc.
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on... Buy or find out more→
The Petrov Affair
$24.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
The defection of Russian diplomats Vladimir Petrov and his wife Evdokia in 1954 ignited the Cold War in Australia and had a profound effect on Australian political history. This book, reprinted for its 50th anniversary, includes... Buy or find out more→
The Way We Live Now: Controversies of the 90's
$25.00 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
Manne writes powerfully about why bureaucrats and politicians ordered Aboriginal children to be taken from their families. He discusses why politicians tell lies. He debates the nature of Australian history and the fierce... Buy or find out more→
The Australian Century: Political Struggle in the Building of a Nation
$24.95 – Paperback / Text Publishing Co
In the lead up to the referendum on the republic and the dawn of the new millennium, this compelling and accessible book is long overdue. Here, in evocative essays by eight major historians, is the political history of Australia... Buy or find out more→
The Dreaming and Other Essays
$32.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
This is a collection of works by W.E.H Stanner, one of Australia's finest essayists. A superb anthropologist, he was both perceptive and prophetic about the Aboriginal people he knew; yet his work has been out of print for many... Buy or find out more→
Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays
$29.95 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Presents a collection of reflection, evocations and commentary, by leading writers with a connection to La Trobe University. Authors include Inga Clendinnen, Robert Manne, Judith Brett, Denis Altman, John Hirst, Marilyn Lake,... Buy or find out more→
Goodbye to All That: On the Failure of Neo-Liberalism and the Urgency of Chance
$36.95 – Paperback / ReadHowYouWant.com Ltd
This is the first substantial book to explore what the global financial crisis means for Australia. It looks past neoliberalism and economic rationalism and asks what kind of social democracy we might hope for in the future.... Buy or find out more→
Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate
$33.95 – Hardback / Oxford University Press Inc
The meaning of the Holocaust and how it should be remembered has been the subject of much intense public debate. Should its significance be limited to particular groups or are there lessons for all of humanity to draw upon? This... Buy or find out more→