The January 6th Report by The January 6th Committee
Category: Politics
The official findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the events leading up to and during the most shameful day in the history of our nation's democracy, the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Law enforcement overwhelmed. Senators and Representatives evacuated. Staff hidden ...Show more
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump by Liz Cheney
Category: Politics
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violen ...Show more
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno
Category: Politics
A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day. Depicting a wonderful parade of d ...Show more
Peace Crimes: Pine Gap, National Security and Dissent by Kieran Finnane
Category: Politics
At the closely guarded and secretive military facility, Pine Gap in Australia's Northern Territory, police arrest six nonviolent activists. Their crime- to step through a fence, lamenting and praying for the dead of war.They call themselves Peace Pilgrims. The Crown calls them a threat to national secur ...Show more
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 US Election and the People Who Stopped It by Matthew Teague, Mark Bowden
Category: Politics
Veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election. In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing ...Show more
Xi: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
Category: Politics | Reading Level: near fine
A timely political primer on Xi Jinping by acclaimed author and academic, Professor Kerry Brown.
Never Give an Inch - Fighting for the America I Love by Mike Pompeo
Category: Politics
Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration's most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again. Mike Pompeo is the only person ever to have served as both America's most senior diplomat and the he ...Show more
Power, Politics and Culture : Interviews with Edward W Said by Edward Said (ed Gauri Viswanathan)
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-nine interviews with one of the Arab world's foremost thinkers and commentators No single book has encompassed the vast scope of Edward Said's erudition quite like Power, Politics and Culture - a collection of his interviews from the last three decades. In these twenty-nine interviews, Said addr ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott by Andrew P Street
Category: Politics
Poor people don't drive cars. People have the right to be bigots. I'm a fixer. Team Australia. Shirtfonting. Choppergate. Stop the boats. Coal is good for humanity. No cuts to health. Sir Prince Philip. The flags. It's all the fault of the febrile media. And that whole onion thing.In August 2013, Austra ...Show more
The Last Correspondent: Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China by Michael Smith
Category: Politics
It was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking. A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents in China. After fi ...Show more
Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll - My Amazing Journey from Sex Worker to Member of Parliament by Fiona Patten
Category: Politics
Sex worker, fashion designer, anti-censorship activist, fierce campaigner, political lobbyist and Member of Parliament - Fiona Patten's journey to the top has been nothing if eventful!Beginning as an AIDS educator with ACT sex worker advocacy group, WISE, she also held positions on the Board of the AIDS ...Show more