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Left, right, left: political essays 1977-2005
Par Robert Manne. 2005
Robert Manne's political trajectory - from right to left - has been an unusual and intriguing one. In the course…
of it, he has written definitive accounts of many of the key public controversies of the past thirty years - from the Cold War to the Iraq War, from the Stolen Generations to the asylum-seekers, from Australian party politics to the culture wars. His two Quarterly Essays "In Denial" and "Sending Them Home", are published here complete, as are controversial discussions of political correctness, pornography and euthanasia as well as gentler thoughts on childhood, the university and the Geelong Football Club. There is also an array of passionate essays on subjects ranging from Geoffrey Blainey to Paul Keating, Helen Garner to George Orwell, Pauline Hanson to Noel Pearson.The best Australian political writing 2008
Par Tony Jones. 2008
In The Best Australian Political Writing 2008, Lateline's Tony Jones selects the most illuminating, provocative and incisive analysis of the…
past year in politics. Here some of our leading commentators and writers dissect Kevin Rudd's march to the Lodge and John Howard's historic defeat; travel to Afghanistan and a drought-stricken Mallee town; weigh in on the culture wars; and investigate the bungled cases of David Hicks and Mohamed Haneef. This collection brings together the names, events and ideas that shaped a remarkable year.Trouble: evolution of a radical : selected writings 1970-2010
Par Kate Jennings. 2010
In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally with a pull-no-punches speech that put 'women's lib' on the…
map. Brave, impassioned and searing, the speech set the tone for the idiosyncratic career that was to follow. A few years later, she was on her way to New York, where she would make her name as a writer and enjoy a ringside seat at some of the most confronting events of our time. With a polemical anger tempered by a keen sense of the absurd and a fiercely independent streak, she writes incisively about politics, morality, finance, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider and looks back at Australia with an expatriate's frankness. Trouble is both an unconventional autobiography and a record of remarkable times. From the protest movements of the 1970s, via Wall Street's heyday and dramatic collapse, to the historic election of Barack Obama, Jennings captures the shifts - seismic and subtle, personal and political - that brought us to where we are now. After four decades, Kate Jennings' work is as exhilarating and impossible to categorise - shocking with the shock of recognition - as the day it was written.The tyranny of prejudice
Par A. J Grassby. 1984
Al Grassby has been in the forefront of the struggle against racial prejudice for many years. Here, Grassby approaches these…
issues on a very personal level, illustrating his arguments with anecdotes and observations we can all recognise and identify with.It's time again: Whitlam and modern Labor
Par Colleen Lewis, Jenny Hocking. 2003
Thirty years ago, Gough Whitlam's government made history, both through its policies and through the manner of its dismissal. The…
ideological battle that still rages around the mere mention of the Whitlam Government is no longer one of judgement over its political activism, it is now a battle over the historical retelling of that activism. This collection of essays by leading academics, commentators and the former Prime Minister himself, looks at the circumstances of both the creation and demise of the Whitlam Government and in doing so sets that era on a broader canvas.Power plays: the real stories of Australian politics
Par Laurie Oakes. 2008
Laurie Oakes is the most influential political journalist in Australia - if he says something has happened, the rest of…
the media (especially the Canberra Press Gallery) believe him and report it as news. He is respected by both political insiders and the wider public. He has worked in Canberra as a political reporter for 39 years and reported on 19 federal elections. He regularly finds the big story way ahead of everyone else. Currently the national political editor for the Nine Network he is the man who interviews all the big names. From 1987 to December 2007 he wrote a weekly column for the Bulletin and since its demise he has been writing a column for the Saturday Daily Telegraph in Sydney and the Herald Sun in Melbourne. Power Plays is a selection of 150 of the very best and most timeless of Laurie Oakes' columns.Honour among nations?: treaties and agreements with indigenous people
Par Marcia Langton. 2004
Contains contributions from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors from Australia, New Zealand and North America. Covers topics as diverse as…
treaty and agreement making, land, the law, political rights and Indigenous peoples, maritime agreements, health, governance and jurisdiction, race discrimination and copyright.Remarkable times: Australian politics 2010-13: what really happened
Par Laurie Oakes. 2013
A collection of the best of Laurie Oakes' weekly articles on national politics since the fall of Kevin Rudd, together…
with exclusive new pieces on the 2013 election campaign, the result, and the make-up and prospects of the new government. From the very first days of the Gillard government to the carbon tax issue; and from the return of Kevin Rudd to the vitriol and turbulence of everyday public debate.1901: Australian life at Federation : an illustrated chronicle
Par Aedeen Cremin. 2000
Provides an account of the way in which Australians lived at the time of Federation and includes special information on…
topics such as : rural life in Australia; life in the cities; the lifestyle of the Chinese and other minority groups; and immigrants.Shearers' motel
Par Roger McDonald. 1992
Set in the hard-living world of travelling shearers in the Australian outback, Roger McDonald cooks for a team of New…
Zealand shearers travelling through N.S.W., S.A. and Victoria and searches for a sense of belonging.Travels in American Iraq
Par John Martinkus. 2004
SBS journalist John Martinkus provides a riveting portrait of a country on the brink of civil war. When the Coalition…
of the Willing liberated Iraq from the yoke of Saddam in early 2003, George W. Bush announced that the Second Gulf War was over. John Martinkus's account of seven weeks spent travelling independently around Iraq in early 2004 shows just the opposite. He takes us into the key places of the new Iraq - from Abu Gharib prison to the Coalition's sealed-off security zone. He provides an eye-witness account of the March 2004 Karbala bombings, and vivid accounts of meetings with ordinary Iraqis, religious leaders, insurgents and occupying troops - the events that take place beyond the official perspective. Tracing the ever-widening gap between rhetoric and reality, he shows that, amidst a developing guerrilla war and a chaotic reconstruction, the line between liberation and occupation has become thin indeed.'And be one people': Alfred Deakin's Federal story
Par Stuart MacIntyre. 1995
This book brings to life one of the most significant events in Australia's history: Federation. In this eyewitness account, Alfred…
Deakin, statesman and "Federation father", presents a record of the Federal movement between 1880 and 1901.China panic: Australia's alternative to paranoia and pandering
Par David Brophy. 2021
When he visited Australia in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping said there was an 'ocean of goodwill' between our country…
and his. Since then that ocean has shown dramatic signs of freezing over. Australia is in the grip of a China Panic. How did we get here and what's the way out? We hear, weekly, alarming stories of Chinese influence, interference or even espionage - in politics, on campus, in the media, in community organisations and elsewhere. The United States now sees China as a strategic rival, and pressure on Australia to 'get tough on China' will only intensify. While the xenophobic right hovers in the wings, some of the loudest voices decrying Chinese subversion come, unexpectedly, from the left. Aligning themselves with hawkish think tanks, they call for new security laws, increased scrutiny of Chinese Australians and, if necessary, military force - a prescription for a sharp rightward turn in Australian politics. In this insightful critique, David Brophy offers a progressive alternative. Instead of punitive measures that restrict rights and stoke suspicion of minorities - moves that would only make Australia more like China - we need democratic solutions that strengthen Australian institutions and embrace, not alienate, Chinese Australians. Above all, we need forms of international solidarity that don't reduce human rights to a mere bargaining chip.Fear: Trump in the White House
Par Bob Woodward. 2018
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing…
life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.Essential but unplanned: the story of Melbourne's lanes
Par Weston Bate. 1994
My friend the fanatic: travels with an Indonesian Islamist
Par Sadanand Dhume. 2008
My Friend the Fanatic is a portrait of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, painted through the travels of…
a pair of unlikely protagonists. Dhume is a foreign correspondent, an Ivy League-educated Indian with a fondness for John Updike and an interest in economic development. His companion, Henri Nurdi, is a young Islamist who hero-worships Osama bin Laden.For decades, US military operations have been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances, including plutonium, dioxin, and VX nerve…
agent. Hundreds of thousands of service members, their families, and residents have been exposed—but the United States has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. After World War II, the United States granted immunity to Japanese military scientists in exchange for their data on biological weapons tests conducted in China; in the following years, nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire islands and exposed Americans, Marshallese, Chamorros, and Japanese fishing crews to radioactive fallout. At the same time, the United States experimented with biological weapons on Okinawa and stockpiled the island with nuclear and chemical munitions, causing numerous accidents. Meanwhile, the CIA orchestrated a campaign to introduce nuclear power to Japan—the folly of which became horrifyingly clear in the 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture. Caught in a geopolitical grey zone, US territories have been among the worst affected by military contamination, including Guam, Saipan, and Johnston Island, the final disposal site of apocalyptic volumes of chemical weapons and Agent Orange. Accompanying this damage, US authorities have waged a campaign of cover-ups, lies, and attacks on the media, which the author has experienced firsthand in the form of military surveillance and attempts by the State Department to impede his work. Now, for the first time, this explosive book reveals the horrific extent of contamination in the Pacific and the lengths the Pentagon will go to conceal it.Provocateur: a life of ideas in action
Par Clive Hamilton. 2022
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status…
quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Australians and the dangers to us of the new authoritarianism - all this and more has been shaped, for better or worse, by public researchers and writers like Hamilton. His work, and that of the Australia Institute he founded, made him many friends as well as powerful enemies. He's been denounced in federal parliament, black-handed by the Chinese Communist Party and sued by an angry corporation. He's had to call in the police after death threats and take a crash course in counter-surveillance techniques. But he has also influenced the quality of the air Australians breathe, the cost of our education and how we see Australia's place in the world. In Provocateur, we see the passions, the doubts, the strategizing, the fears, the victories, the mistakes and the questioning. Here is a blueprint for changing public debate in our increasingly uncertain times - proof that ideas are powerful and that a different way into the future is possible.Bulldozed: Scott Morrison's fall and Anthony Albanese's rise
Par Niki Savva. 2022
Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed…
by a succession of Coalition governments rocked by instability and bloodletting, and consumed with prosecuting climate and culture wars while neglecting policy. By the end, among his detractors -- and there were plenty -- Morrison was seen as the worst prime minister since Billy McMahon. Worse even than Tony Abbott, who lasted a scant two years in the job, whose main legacy was that he destroyed Julia Gillard, then himself, and then Turnbull. Morrison failed to accept the mantle of national leadership, or to deal adequately with the challenges of natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic. He thought reform was a vanity project. He said he never wanted to leave a legacy. He got his wish. Niki Savva, Australia's renowned political commentator, author, and columnist, was there for all of it. In The Road to Ruin, she revealed the ruinous behaviour of former prime minister Abbott and his chief of staff, Peta Credlin, that led to the ascension of Turnbull. In Plots and Prayers, she told the inside story of the coup that overthrew Turnbull and installed his conniving successor, Morrison. Now she lays out the final unravelling of the Coalition at the hands of a resurgent Labor and the so-called teal independents that culminated in the historic 2022 election. With her typical access to key players, and her riveting accounts of what went on behind the scenes, Bulldozed is the unique final volume of an unputdownable and impeccably sourced political trilogy.With the falling of the dusk
Par Stan Grant. 2021
History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of…
the 'end of history' and the triumph of liberal democracy in 1989. Now, with the inexorable rise and rise of China, the ascendancy of authoritarianism and the retreat of democracy, the world stands at a moment of crisis. This is a time of momentous upheaval and enormous geopolitical shifts, compounded by global pandemics, looming world depression, Islamist and far right terror, and a resurgent white supremacy. The world is in lockdown and the showdown with China is accelerated - and while the West has been at the forefront of history for 200 years, it must now adapt to a world it no longer dominates. At this moment, we stand on a precipice - what will become of us? Stan Grant is one of our foremost observers and chroniclers of the world in crisis. Weaving his personal experiences of reporting from the front lines of the world's flashpoints, together with his deep understanding of politics, history and philosophy, he explores what is driving the world to crisis and how it might be averted. From China to North Korea and Northern Ireland to South Africa and the Middle East - Stan captures this moment of democracy in retreat and authoritarianism on the march. He fears for the worst, but begins to chart the way forward. There is bitterness, anger and history here, but there is also the capacity for negotiation, forgiveness and hope.