The PM Years by Kevin Rudd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
It was the coup that killed Australian politics. Less than three years after taking government in a landslide election victory, Kevin Rudd was betrayed by his deputy and the factional powerbrokers of the Australian Labor Party, the 'Faceless Men', despite enjoying historically high personal and party ap ...Show more
The Palace Letters: The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam by Professor Jenny Hocking
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
What role did the queen play in the governor-general Sir John Kerr's plans to dismiss prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, which unleashed one of the most divisive episodes in Australia's political history? And why weren't we told? Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the lett ...Show more
The Quiet Before - On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas by Gal Beckerman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - An "elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated" (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements--from the 1600s to the present--and how current technology is undermining them "A bravura work of scholarship and repo ...Show more
The Road to Ruin: The bestselling prequel to Plots and Prayers by Niki Savva
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Road to Ruin Trilogy Ser.
'There will be no wrecking, no undermining, and no sniping.'-Tony Abbott, 15 September 2015Abbott's performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. He sounded desperate, he was inconsistent, and -?his colleagues thought?-?slightly ridiculous ...Show more
The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Trump's National Security Advisor took detailed notes. The result is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration from a senior advisor who had served three previous presidents over 30 years, with stunning revelations about happened inside the most powerful room in the nati ...Show more
The Secret by Alexandra Smith
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Gladys Berejiklian was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with grace and a steady hand. To many Australians, she was 'The Woman Who Saved Australia' for the way in which she navigate ...Show more
The Secret Political Adviser - The Unredacted Files of the Man in the Room Next Door by Michael Spicer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Just who is the secret political adviser calling himself The Man in the Room Next Door? No one knows. We don't even know his name. But now the lid is about to be blown clean off, because the secret files of the world's most influential* political media adviser are published in this book. Packed with let ...Show more
The Socialist Challenge Today - Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders by Leo Panitch; Sam Gindin; Stephen Maher (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Stephen Maher provide a newly updated and expanded primer for twenty-first century democratic socialists. The Socialist Challenge Today presents an essential historical, theoretical, and critical perspective for understanding the potential as well as the limits of three impo ...Show more
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by Mike Rothschild
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Its messaging can seem cryptic, even nonsensical, yet for tens of thousands of people, it explains everything: What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is the Capitol insurgency a sign of where it's going next? On October 5, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a ga ...Show more
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by Mike Rothschild
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
*****ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A chilling overview of a movement that should arguably have no place in any healthy, well-educated society.' - The Telegraph'A compelling book.' - The Guardian'The Storm Is Upon Us is an impressive piece of research and a gripping read. Rothschild's book rea ...Show more
The Teal Revolution: Inside the Movement Changing Australian Politics by Margot Saville
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
The Teal Revolution is essential reading on the unprecedented Teal wave of the 2022 election, a movement with the potential to change Australian politics. From experienced political journalist Margot Saville, this is the fourth book in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. In the 2 ...Show more
The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 by Zachary Gorman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How did Menzies develop as the giant of Australian politics? Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. As the nation's longest-serving prime minister, he transformed and ultimately dominated the political landscape, implementing policies that laid the foundations of modern Australia ...Show more