Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement: My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement by Jane McAlevy
$21.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In 1995, in the first contested election in the history of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney won the presidency of the nation's largest labor federation, promising renewal and resurgence. Today, less than 7 percent of American private-sector workers belong to a union, the lowest percentage since the beginning o ...Show more
Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke (Editor); Louise Swinn (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes ...Show more
Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Robert Menzies claimed the prime ministership in 1939 and led the nation during the early years of the war, but resigned two years later when he lost the confidence of his party. His political career seemed over, and yet he staged one of the great comebacks to forge a new political party, devise a new g ...Show more
Run for Your Life by Bob Carr
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Most political memoirs are boring.Bob Carr tears up the rules. He plunges in, beginning with the despair of a young man pining for a political career, convinced he's going nowhere, then vaulting to the exhilaration of a premier who, on one day, saves a vast forest and unveils the country's best curricul ...Show more
Subversion As Foreign Policy - The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia by Audrey R. Kahin; George M. Kahin
$54.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This account of US foreign policy reveals the story of the covert activity in Indonesia undertaken by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the late 1950s.
Tales from Boomtown - Western Australian Premiers from Brand to Mcgowan UPDATED EDITION by Peter Kennedy (Revised by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Revised and Updated, with analysis by the ABC's Antony Green. Veteran political journalist Peter Kennedy has spent nearly fifty years observing twelve Premiers of Western Australia, across an extraordinary period of change in Western Australia's history, from 1970 to 2019. His insider account reveals is ...Show more
Teaching Marx - The Socialist Challenge by Curry Stephenson Malott (Editor); Mike Cole (Editor); John M. Elmore (Editor)
$134.95 AUD
Category: Politics
We are in the midst of yet another global crisis in capitalism. In the UK, we have the most right wing and ideologically driven government since Thatcher; a ruthless cabal of millionaires intent on destroying the welfare state. In the US, President Obama, whose initial record did not live up to the expe ...Show more
Teaching White Supremacy - America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone
$59.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America's white supremacy--from the country's inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today's Black Lives Matter. "The most profoundly original cultural history in r ...Show more
The Big Teal by Simon Holmes à Court
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The May 2022 election marked the great re-engagement of those ignored and patronised for too long on climate, integrity and gender equity. The electoral map has been dramatically redrawn. However, the triumph of the 'teals' was not entirely unexpected to those assisting their rise, such as Climate 200 f ...Show more
The Book of Paul: The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Keating by Russell Marks
$14.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Presenting the one and only Mr Paul Keating - at his straight-shooting, scumbag-calling, merciless best. Paul lets rip - on John Howard- 'The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on.' On Peter Costello- 'The thing about poor old Costello is he is ...Show more
The Case for Courage (In the National Interest) by Kevin Rudd
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
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, but distracting, to point to the usual list of reasons, from the declining ca ...Show more