The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
The Relationship Is the Project: A Guide to Working With Communities by Jade Lillie (Editor); Kate Larsen (Editor); Cara Kirkwood (As told to); Jax Brown (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Community-engaged practice is not an art form. It’s not an add-on. It’s a way of working; a deep collaboration.The Relationship is the Project features provocations, tools and practical tips for working with communities. This includes the ethics and logistics of working on community-based projects, from ...Show more
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev; Jessica Spengler (Translator)
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The President of the United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established political institution ...Show more
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing ...Show more
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth, Frank Bongiorno
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A little book about the big history of one of Australia’s most important institutions The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. This short, sharp history tells the story of the party’s formation, its successes and failures at winning ...Show more
Australia on the Brink: Avoiding Environmental Ruin by Ian Lowe
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australia’s environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all getting worse, each calling for immediate action to protect our future. The 2021 report determine ...Show more
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
How everyday Russians survive and thrive under Putin's rule, from The New Yorker's correspondent in Moscow.
Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix by Dade Hayes, Dawn Chmielewski
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies -- Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi - as they scramble to mount ...Show more
But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I d ...Show more
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Chip War reveals how we can’t make sense of politics, economics or technology today without first understanding the central role played by computer chips in shaping the modern world. But the West's lead in this area is under threat. At stake is America's military superiority and the economic prosperity ...Show more
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labour Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Chokepoint Capitalism tells us how the vampires crashed the party, and provides protective garlic.'-Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the ...Show more
Chronicles of Dissent by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thought. In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on independent thought; how historical r ...Show more