Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
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Category: Current Affairs
An urgent follow-up to bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country: Quarterly Essay 36 by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Australian Story, Mungo MacCallum investigates the political success of Kevin Rudd. What does he know about Australia that his opponents don't? This is a characteristically barbed and perceptive look at the challenges facing the government and the country. MacCallum argues that the things we used to ...Show more
Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic: Quarterly Essay 82 by George Megalogenis
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In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of social security and concern for the future? Australia faces recession. In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of care and fear, of social security and concern for the future? In this original essay, George Megalogenis explains ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
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A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again - Rebuilding Our Common Wealth by Mark Swivel
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This is Mark Swivel's soundbite manifesto as he embarks on a bid for the Senate in 2019. Swivel argues our political class detached from the rest of us a long time ago and has no real purpose beyond preserving itself. He advocates a new populism that's about making communities worth living in and buildi ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 54: Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom by Andrew Charlton
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In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts. China's rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring 100 times more quickly and on a scale 1000 times larger than Br ...Show more
Truth of the Palace Letters, The: Deceit, Ambush and Dismissal in 1975 by Paul Kelly; Troy Bramston
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Category: Current Affairs
In July 2020 the National Archives of Australia released the long-suppressed correspondence between Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II, written during Kerr's tumultuous tenure as Governor-General of Australia. The letters cover the constitutional crisis that culminated in Kerr's infamous dismissal of ...Show more
The Russia Conundrum: How the West Fell For Putin's Power Gambit - and How to Fix It by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close...' Mikhail Khodorkovsky, March ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
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Category: Current Affairs
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Putin’s War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution by Samuel Ramani
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Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Vladimir Putin viewed this attack on a neighbour as a legacy-defining mission, which sought to restore a central element of Russia’s sphere of influence and undo Ukraine’s surprisingly resilient demo ...Show more