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The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed their own Government (Updated Edition)
In the original edition of The Road to Ruin, prominent political commentator, author, and columnist for The Australian Niki Savva revealed the ruinous behaviour of former prime minister Tony Abbott and his chief of staff, Peta...
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Dragon and Kangaroo: Australia and China’s Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day
The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from before Captain Cook to the present day.
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The Show: Another Side of Santamaria’s Movement
In late 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia's Catholic bishops took the first steps in creating a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party's massive trade union base. Before...
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Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government’s 21st Century Agenda
‘The changes we have made will remain - like all great Labor legislation - permanent landmarks in our history.' Gough WhitlamThe Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and...
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Credit Code Red: How Financial Deregulation and World Instability are Exposing Australia to Economic Catastrophe
Australia has been the lucky country for a long time. First it rode off the sheep's back. Then it became a quarry for emerging economies. It deregulated its financial sector, abandoned manufacturing, rode an apparently endless...
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Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy paints the epic picture of economic change in an intimate way, by telling the stories of tools and ideas that had far-reaching and unexpected consequences.
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
From the Financial Times' US commentator, The Retreat of Western Liberalism is an extraordinarily sharp and insightful look at why the values the West has long championed now face mortal danger
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient...
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia’s Climate Deadlock
The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. And the Coalition government is divided and paralysed.
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No is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us the toolkit we need to...
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Uncle Dysfunctional: Uncompromising Answers to Life’s Most Painful Problems
Highlights from AA Gill's brilliantly acerbic advice columns from his time as Esquire's agony uncle
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
Acclaimed fantasy author China Mieville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down
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The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Rebellion
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin
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Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment
This explosive, headline-making memoir from the world's most controversial economist will blow the lid on the secret dealings of the EU
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Identifies seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray, and sets out a roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot. This book deconstructs the character of Rational economic man and explains what...
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Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse has brought to light horrific stories. Questions about what the Cardinal George Pell knew, and when, have persisted. Cardinal uncovers uncomfortable truths about a...
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Depends What You Mean by Extremist: Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the...
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War: An Enquiry
A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more
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They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from Detention
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What Is A Refugee?
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The Optician of Lampedusa
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Chasing Asylum
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The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
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Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru
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Nauru Burning: An uprising and its aftermath
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Notes on an Exodus
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1984
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The Handmaid’s Tale
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Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
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They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter
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Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory
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Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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A Hope More Powerful than the Sea
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Fight Like a Girl
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Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love
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My Life on the Road
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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The Argonauts
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We Should All Be Feminists
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Bad Feminist
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Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill
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Evatt: A life
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No Job for a Woman
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Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Rasputin: The Biography
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My Story
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Albanese: Telling It Straight
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Long Walk To Freedom
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Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101 - Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia’s Climate Deadlock
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Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen - One Nation and the Politics of Race
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Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream - Blood, History and Becoming
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Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within - American Politics in the Time of Trump
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Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line - Australia’s Path to War
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Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act - Australia Between Recession and Renewal
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Quarterly Essay 60: Political Amnesia - How We Forgot How To Govern
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