Culture Wars: Gen Z vs. Millennial by Susie Rae
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Zoomers & Millennials, let the battle begin! Culture Wars brings the intergenerational online feud to the page. Skinny jeans vs. flares, side-parts vs. curtains, lol vs. sksksksksk and a whole lot of sardonic existential dread; this is the PERFECT gift book for Gen Z and Millennial alike. This h ...Show more
Daughters of Durga: Dowries, Gender Violence and Family in Australia by Manjula Datta O'Connor
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
An incisive investigation of domestic violence in South Asian communities, and the resilience of women in the face of adversityIn the early 2010s a spate of domestic violence-related murders in the Victorian Indian community compelled psychiatrist Manjula Datta O'Connor to investigate the causes of patr ...Show more
Marrul: Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for Rights by Inala Cooper
$19.95 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
What does reconciliation and truth-telling look like, and how do we as a nation find justice for Indigenous people?In this deeply personal work, Inala Cooper shares stories of her family to show the impact of colonisation on the lives of Aboriginal people from the 1940s to now. She reveals the struggles ...Show more
Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World by Elle Hardy
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Neo-Charismatic Pentecostalism has some 600 million followers worldwide, and by 2050 their numbers will grow to 1 billion: that's one in ten people. This i ...Show more
The Secret by Alexandra Smith
$36.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with grace and a steady hand. To many Australians, she was 'The Woman Who Saved Australia' for the way in which she navigate ...Show more
On the Voice to Parliament by Charles Prouse
$16.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Australia is on the brink of a landmark decision to establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament that will be enshrined in the Constitution. From there, treaty-making and truth-telling will follow. But how do we cut through the debate, get to the heart of the issue and vote in the best interests of In ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal by Megan Davis
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of Australia. This essential Quarterly Essay seeks to do two things: to make the strongest, clearest possible case for the Voice to Parliament and to draw out the significance and the promise of this reform - ...Show more
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day. Depicting a wonderful parade of d ...Show more
Gen F'd?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures by Alison Pennington
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Gen F-d?, economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia's history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie G ...Show more
On Helen Garner: Writers on Writers by Sean O'Beirne
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
In a brilliantly argued and very personal essay, Sean O'Beirne looks at the whole of Helen Garner's writing life so far - from Monkey Grip to the recently published Diaries - while trying to come to terms with the demands, and the rewards, of Garner's extraordinary, radical individualism and honesty. In ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 71: Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman by Laura Tingle
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Category: New Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this crisp and timely essay, Laura Tingle examines political leadership in general - some profiles in courage, and cunning - as well as styles of leadership. She looks at Macron and Merkel, Keating and Obama.Tingle notes that leaders must command not only their country, but also their party. Where do ...Show more
The Statute of Liberty: How Australians can take back their rights by Geoffrey Robertson
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Category: New Current Affairs
The Australian people emerged from a polyglot mixture of nationalities and other races: a kind of human minestrone. Not only a race, but a race apart, thanks to the kindness of distance. What distinctive moral vision have we attained from the struggles and sacrifices of our forebears? If we are to prese ...Show more