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A Story of Grief (Penguin Special) by Michaela McGuire
$9.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
When Jill Meagher was murdered on a Brunswick street in September last year, Melbourne and, indeed, all of Australia were horrified. People became desperately interested in the story, with pleas for moderation on social media coming from the police and Meagher's husband, and with news reports hashing ov ...Show more
Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institue Paper - Penguin Specials by Peter Hartcher
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are criticised for travelling beyond the w ...Show more
America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? by Kori Schake
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
"The rules-based international order is being challenged... not by the usual suspects, but by its main architect and guarantor, the US." --European Council President Donald Tusk, 8 June 2018 Under President Donald Trump, the United States has burned like a wildfire through the goodwill it accrued in 70 ...Show more
Ballots Bullets and Kabulshit - An Afghan Election by Toby Ralph
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Specials | Reading Level: very good
Toby Ralph, described as one of the 'most powerful spinners and advisers in Australia', joined a UN team to assist with preparations for Afghanistan's 2009 presidential elections. Ballots, Bullets and Kabulshit offers a rare glimpse into the chaos and danger of attempting to deliver democracy in a war z ...Show more
Beauty's Sister (Penguin Special) by James Bradley
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Specials
Juniper, living deep in the forest with her parents, is stunned to discover that the beautiful girl living isolated in a nearby tower is her sister. When the two girls meet, what begins as a fascination and a friendship ultimately develops into something truly sinister. A story of jealousy, passion and ...Show more
Beyond the Boom: Penguin Special by John Edwards
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit. In a striking analysis ...Show more
Choosing Openness: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Why global engagement is best for Australia by Andrew Leigh
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials
Across the developed world, global engagement has become a major political fault line. Populists say that we should hunker down in the face of difference, that trade is a zero-sum game, and that foreign investment will cost us in the long run. They say openness is the cause of the growing income gap. Th ...Show more
Condemned to Crisis: A Lowy Institute Paper by Ken Ward
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials
It is often said that no country is more important to Australia than Indonesia. Yet the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran is just the latest in a long line of crises that have marred relations between Canberra and Jakarta. Does Australia really need to do more to strengthen its ties with Ind ...Show more
Does Cooking Matter? (Penguin Special) by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Specials
Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat by Sally C. Davies; Mike Catchpole; Jonathan Grant
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Resistance to our current range of antibiotics is the new inconvenient truth. If we don't act now, we risk the health of our parents, our children and our grandchildren. Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have s ...Show more
Embarrassed Colonialist by Sean Dorney
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Australia. Yet Australians seem to be largely ambivalent about the country. Few Australians know the history of our colonial rule in PNG and our long ties to the country are quickly being forgotten. PNG expert S ...Show more
End of the Road?: Australia's love affair with the car industry, its current difficulties, and why we shouldn't rush into a divorce by Gideon Haigh
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Specials
Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom - a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few friends, and many vociferous critics who argue that the country should not make cars at all. In this eng ...Show more