Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future by Judith Brett
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Category: New Current Affairs | Series: QE78
Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, accounting for over a third of coal exports worldwide. In 2018, coal overtook iron ore as our most valuable export. Scott Morrison’s government has embraced coal, doubling down on supporting the industry, calling climate-based boycotts of coal companies “i ...Show more
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
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Category: New Current Affairs
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, ha ...Show more
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
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Category: New Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
'Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and forgiveness more effectively than their own. The truth is ...Show more
ESSAYS ON IMMIGRATION by BLAISDELL BOB
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Category: New Current Affairs | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
In America, everything was possible, recalls Louis Adamic of Slovenia. There even the common people were 'citizens, ' not 'subjects' . . . a citizen, or even a non-citizen foreigner, could walk up to the President of the United States and pump his hand. Indeed, that seemed to be a custom in America.The ...Show more
High and Dry - How Free Trade in Water Will Cripple Australian Agriculture by Patrick J. Byrne; Neil Eagle; John A. O'Brien; Daryl McDonald
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Category: New Current Affairs
Key Points on Water Policy: Measured per capita, Australia is the third most water rich nation on earth. Water is not a private good but a mixed good, with many public good characteristics. Its price curve is inelastic. Both FAO and World Bank research strongly argues that the primary allocation of wa ...Show more
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott by David Marr
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Category: New Current Affairs
The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book - and a crucial election-year companion. Australians want to know: what kind of man is Tony Abbott, and how would he perform as prime minister? In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows that as a young Catholic warrior at univers ...Show more
Northern Lights: The Positive Policy Example of Sweden, Finland, Denmark & Norway by Andrew Scott
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Category: New Current Affairs | Series: Public Policy Ser.
The nations of Scandinavia and Finland, or Nordic Europe, continue to provide living proof that economic prosperity can be combined with social equality and environmental responsibility. This book, written from an Australian perspective, explores previous outside policy interest in the Nordic nations an ...Show more
How to Sell A Massacre by Peter Charley
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Category: New Current Affairs
By the mastermind who infiltrated the NRA and One Nation and based on the award-winning documentary seen on ABC TVIn 2019, the ABC aired an explosive investigative documentary entitled How to Sell a Massacre. The result of an audacious three-year infiltration of the US National Rifle Association, the do ...Show more
Apocalypse Never Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
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Category: New Current Affairs
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And h ...Show more
Extremism by J. M. Berger
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Category: New Current Affairs | Series: The\MIT Press Essential Knowledge Ser.
What extremism is, how extremist ideologies are constructed, and why extremism can escalate into violence.A rising tide of extremist movements threaten to destabilize civil societies around the globe. It has never been more important to understand extremism, yet the dictionary definition--a logical star ...Show more
Fukushima - The Story of a Nuclear Disaster by David Lochbaum; Edwin Lyman; Susan Q. Stranahan; The Union of Concerned Scientists
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Category: New Current Affairs
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made ca ...Show more
THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR by Charlotte, Alter
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Category: New Current Affairs
An optimistic look at the future of American leadership by a brilliant young reporter A new generation is stepping up. There are now twenty-six millennials in Congress--a fivefold increase gained in the 2018 midterms alone. They are governing Midwestern cities and college towns, running for city council ...Show more