The Betoota Advocate Round-up by The Betoota Advocate
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A collection of the best plus a host of new material from ‘Australia's oldest newspaper', a hugely popular online satricial 'news' service The BETOOTA ADVOCATE claims to hail from the Queensland town of Betoota (pop: 0) and be Australia's oldest newspaper. Since venturing online in 2014, it has quickly ...Show more
The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women by Kay Saunders
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - together in the one big book. Tilly Devine, Mary Bryant, Helena Rubinstein, Lola Montez - th ...Show more
The Brumby Wars: The battle for the soul of Australia by Anthony Sharwood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
It's not just a war over horses. It's a battle for the soul of Australia. This is a book about the intense culture war raging around Australia's wild horses, known as brumbies. It pits a vision of the legendary Man from Snowy River and the iconic ANZAC Light Horse against the spectre of ecosystems destr ...Show more
The Checkout Book by Julian Morrow
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Don't get ripped off, read THE CHECKOUT, from the team behind ABC's top-rating show. ABC TV's THE CHECKOUT has managed to delight and inform consumers while challenging and infuriating big business. Keeping the same mix of irreverence and information as the top-rating ABC show, THE CHECKOUT is a fabulou ...Show more
The Consul: An Insider Account from Australia's Diplomatic Frontline by Ian Kemish
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
An absorbing insider's account of leadership and service within Australia's Consular service, through tumultuous events including the September 11 attacks, the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day Tsunami.As head of Australia's consular service, Ian Kemish played a central role in the nation's response to s ...Show more
The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen
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Category: Non Fiction
In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?Amid China's rise and America's decline in Asia, what will happen to Australia?In this authoritative account, defence expert and insider Sam Roggeveen questions the claim that Australia is vulnerable to China's mil ...Show more
The Game: A Portrait of Scott Morrison by Sean Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What happens when the prime minister views politics only as a game? Australia wanted Scott Morrison. In a time of uncertainty, the country chose in 2019 to turn to a man with no obvious beliefs, no clear purpose and no famous talents. That we wanted Scott Morrison was the secret we did not know about ou ...Show more
The Great South Land by Rob Mundle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
How Dutch sailors discovered New Holland and left Australia to a British pirate. For many, the colonial story of Australia starts with Captain Cook's discovery of the east coast in 1770, but it was some 164 years before his historic voyage that European mariners began their romance with the immensity of ...Show more
The Islamic Republic of Australia by Sami Shah
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Category: Non Fiction
What is Halal? A country bordering Shariahland, or a method of preparing food? Do the Five Pillars of Islam comply with modern building codes? Or are they simply a philosophy for living? And if Muslims first arrived in Australia as early as 1800, can they go back to where they came from?In this funny an ...Show more
The Morrison Government: Governing through crisis, 2019-2022 by Brendan McCaffrie (Editor); Michelle Grattan (Editor); Chris Wallace (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Leading thinkers on the policies and leadership of the Morrison Government from 2019 to 2022Australia has rarely endured as many difficulties as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic-dominated Morrison Government’s term of office from its surprise 2019 election win to the 2022 poll. How did government per ...Show more
The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Indigenous Americas Ser.
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preocc ...Show more