Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again(TM) is Mark Swivel's soundbite manifesto as he embarks on a bid for the senate in 2019. Swivel argues our political class detached from the rest of us a long time ago and has no real purpose beyond... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Holocene Pointbreaks Holocene Pointbreaks presents a triptych of long poems that veer physically, temporally, and textually across the lands of the Dharawal and Eora Nations. From morning reflections on Australia's most polluted urban waterway, the 'Cooks River', to a... RRP: $27.00 $26.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Charities & Politics Charities play an outsize role in the social, cultural and economic life of the nation, delivering goods and services on which lives depend. To effectively serve their communities, charities also participate in politics: campaigning for changes to law... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Long March In 1975, as Gough Whitlam's government hurtled towards its demise, a nineteen-year-old arts student at the University of Melbourne, Kim Carr, began a long march.Raised in an avowedly blue-collar household headed by his boilermaker father, Carr eschewed... RRP: $49.99 $48.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added 'I Wonder' Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach - summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' - won him a large... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Rethinking Development and Politics Professor Lord Meghnad Desai is a world-renowned commentator on globalisation and de-globalisation. He is currently Chair of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) Advisory Board, which facilitates discussion between key... RRP: $39.95 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Elections Matter In a world of fake news and populist politics, elections can seem like theatre. With growing rates of informal votes and a perceived narrowing of differences between the major parties, do Australian elections really matter? Taking ten examples, this book... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Post-Pandemic Child In March 2020, schools and childcare centres across Australia were forced to close to control the spread of the recently arrived novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Families and carers suddenly had to adjust to long periods of home-schooling, disparities in... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Courting Power Courts aren't just there to settle divorces, sentence law-breakers and resolve corporate disputes. A healthy legal system, one that ensures access, transparency and accountability, is fundamental to democracy. When the system works, the courts act as a... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added My Father's Shadow My father, political activist Samuel Mark Goldbloom, was my hero and my nemesis all the days of his life.Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo grew up in thrall to her father, a prominent socialist and covert member of the Communist Party. From an early age, she... RRP: $32.99 $32.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Advancing Human Rights Human rights come into question in times of crisis. But should we wait for crises to arise before we discuss these rights? Advancing human rights should be everyone's business, not just that of a select group of public interest lawyers, conspiracy... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Marrul 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... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Population Shock Long-term population directions, in terms of both size and age composition, drive the destiny of all nations. While for decades we have worried about global overpopulation, it is far more likely that the period 19502050 will be an extraordinary... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Governing in the Age of the Internet Over the past thirty years, the internet has transformed virtually every area of human activity, social and economic. The bulk of these changes have been positive, allowing people to work, imagine and connect with each other in new ways. The boost to... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Our National Shame The exposs in early 2021 of sexism and sexual violence in Parliament House prompted women (and some men) across the country to take to stages, lecterns and social media to express their rage and demand action. However, while these events highlighted that... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Rape Culture The recent revelations and allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the Australian Parliament have prompted furious responses. Political leaders have attempted to limit the damage by referring to the lack of criminal charges, resisting a... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Who Dares Loses Why does Australia go through cycles of public policy boldness and timidity? The COVID-19 crisis has shown that the Australian political system has much more tolerance for policy innovation than appeared to be the case on the evidence of the previous... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Tides that Bind As the many nations of the Pacific deal with the threat of climate change, including rising sea levels and lessening access to fresh water, they are also suffering from some of the slowest rates of development of any region on earth. Now more than ever,... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Case for Courage For some time, Australia's democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation's major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It's tempting,... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Decade of Drift The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in climate change policy over the past decade contributed to this in Australia? As a senior public servant... RRP: $20.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Lectures on Political Theory 1941-45 Delivered during the years of heightened national security of World War II these lectures present Anderson's views on the major questions in political theory in relation to the major influences upon his own early education: modern Idealism and Marxism.In... RRP: $29.95 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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