Minority Policy Rethinking Governance When Parliament Matters by Richard/Prosser, Brenton Denniss
Category: Politics
Topical and up-to-the-minute, Minority Policy: Rethinking governance when parliament matters explores the influence of marginal parliamentarian both within the major parties and on the cross benches in the formations of contemporary public policy. Despite Australia having minority government in some for ...Show more
Hinch vs Canberra by Derryn Hinch
Category: Politics
As a current affairs commentator, Derryn Hinch spent decades fighting with politicians. Then the unthinkable happened—he became one. This is the inside story of Senator Hinch's first year in Canberra. Explosive, incisive, frank, brutal, and, at times, very funny.
Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Weath and Power by Noam Chomsky
Category: Politics
Requiem for the American Dream is a work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Noam Chomsky on the subject of income equality. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible, and at the same ...Show more
Abbott's Right by Damien Freeman
Category: Politics
Tony Abbott may have been a Rhodes Scholar, but some commentators are convinced that he offered nothing more than three-word slogans. Abbott's Right challenges this perception, and presents Abbott as someone who rejoices in the political battle of ideas. It looks at how the contemporary conservative voi ...Show more
UnAustralian of the Year: Words and Pictures By Bill Leak by Bill Leak
Category: Politics
'Freedom of speech is the freedom to offend and that means the freedom to offend anyone.' - Bill Leak. A new collection of the art and observations of cartoonist, painter and all-round contrarian - the incomparable Bill Leak. The public has rarely held politicians and the practice of politics in such co ...Show more
Chronicles of Dissent by Noam Chomsky
Category: Politics
An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thought. In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on independent thought; how historical r ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
Category: Politics
A freshly updated version of the definitive book on human rights law, now with a new chapter on war crimes in Ukraine In a newly updated edition of Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. H ...Show more
Diplomatic: A Washington memoir by Joe Hockey
Category: Politics
In September 2015 Joe Hockey's political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malcolm Turnbull successfully challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal Leadership. Hockey was told by Turnbull he would no longer be Treasurer - a deal had been done with Scott Morrison. Hockey, who was at on ...Show more
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by MCCOY
Category: Politics
The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the ...Show more
The Manner of their Going: Prime Ministerial exits in Australia by Norman Abjorensen
Category: Politics
For those who want to understand Australian politics today - Why does Australia change its prime ministers so often? Has the job of prime minister become more difficult? It has certainly become more insecure, with six changes in the eleven years between 2007 and 2018. Here is the story of how all twenty ...Show more
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning by Stuart Macintyre
Category: Politics
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia. Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influen ...Show more