Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more
Truth of the Palace Letters, The: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 by Paul Kelly; Troy Bramston
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous tenure as Governor-General of Australia. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of ...Show more
Unhinged - An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration. Few have been a member of Donald Trump's inner orbi ...Show more
Unhinged : An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
The former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides a jaw-dropping look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration. Few have been a member of Donald Trump's inner orbit longer than Omarosa Manigau ...Show more
Unmasked: The Politics of Pandemics (In the National Interest) by Bill Bowtell
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Nature creates viruses. But people and politics create pandemics. And pandemics create new politics. In the 1980s, the toxic politics of the response to HIV/AIDS turned a serious but manageable viral threat into a global pandemic that took the lives of 32 million people and brought illness and suffering ...Show more
Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power by David Crowe
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power. They plotted. They schemed. They unleashed chaos. Australia lost two prime ministers in three years in a period of political bloodshed that took the nation' ...Show more
Warrior Politics by Robert Kaplan
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice by Julian Burnside
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result ...Show more
Way Beyond Satire by Rowan Dean
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Following the turbulent, crazy, roller-coaster years of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, by late 2013 Australians were looking forward to a steady new era of boring, conservative, grown-up government under Tony Abbott and his Coalition. Little did they know, the real fun had just begun. In this hilarious s ...Show more
We Can't Say We Didn't Know by Sophie McNeill
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning investigative reporter and former foreign correspondent For more than 15 years, award-winning journalist Sophie McNeill has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and I ...Show more
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Frye
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually works Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies-and recog ...Show more
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book.First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became ...Show more