The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis

$12.00 AUD

Category: Politics

Australians are generally uncomfortable in the global spotlight - outside of sports stadiums. But after seeing us negotiate the Asian financial crisis, the tech wreck and the Global Financial Crisis that bred the Great Recession, the world is now turning to us, the 'miracle economy', for guidance. This is the page-turning story of our nation's remarkable transformation since the '70s. One of our most respected journalists, George Megalogenis, traces the key economic reforms and brilliant moments of collective instinct that opened our society to the immigration of capital, ideas and people to just the right degree. He pinpoints the events that shaped our good fortune and national character, and corrects our selective memory where history has been misunderstood or misdirected by self-interested political leadership. No one writing today is better at reading the numbers and telling the story around them than Megalogenis, and no one else has been able to coax our former prime ministers to candidly re-assess each other's contribution to the Australian Moment. Fraser, Hawke, Keating, Howard and Rudd, as well as Whitlam's confidant Graham Freudenberg, go on record for the first time about many aspects of the internal politicking, decision-making and bids for the legacy of our astonishing period of significant reform. The Australian Moment demands we reconsider what we have achieved and our place in the global economy, and how we might purposefully approach the future. A groundbreaking work in the tradition of The Lucky Country and The End of Certainty . ...Show more

How to Kill a Country: Australia's Devastating Trade Deal with the United States by Linda Weiss

$10.00 AUD

Category: Politics

Three of Australia's top policy analysts have investigated the fine print in the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement and reveal how the Agreement is anything but Free. With new information from inside sources, they tell of the behind-the-scenes negotiations, and how Australia's long-term prosperity has be en dangerously undermined. ...Show more

Awakening by TINDALL TREVOR

$16.00 AUD

Category: Politics

Civilising Capitalism by Nairn,Bede

$20.00 AUD

Category: Australian

Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda by Jenny Hocking

$25.00 AUD

Category: Australian | Series: Australian History

The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and certainties of twenty-three years of conservative government and changed it irrevocably. It passed a record number of bills into law and became the most successful reformist government in Australias history. This book brings to light aspects of Whitlams ambitious reform agenda that have been neglected for too long. The Australian Assistance Plan generated networks of regional and community cooperation that remain today. Plans for energy infrastructure and self-sufficiency that would ensure the use of the nations resources for the common good, appear more and more visionary. The ground-breaking Royal Commission into Human Relationships is clearly a forerunner of the current royal commissions into institutionalised child abuse and family violence. New research shows the extent to which this reforming agenda continued the post-war reconstruction plans of Curtin and Chifley. The personal dimension of this agenda -- How Whitlams approach to policy design and implementation was influenced by his childhood in Canberra -- is also detailed. Finally this book reassesses the place of the Whitlam government, and its dismissal, in history, in light of new material that continues to emerge from the personal papers of Sir John Kerr, and new analyses that challenge previous assessments. ...Show more

Australian Democracy in Theory and Practice by Graham Maddox

$32.00 AUD

Category: Australian

Places Australian political institutions and procedures into an historical perspective and introduces elements of political comparison that shed light on our experience and our place in the world. Government is examined as an instrument of democracy for social and economic change.

In Their Own Right - The Rise to Power of Joh's Nationals by Alan Metcalfe; Robert Sparkes (Foreword by)

$13.50 AUD

Category: Australian

The History Thieves: Secrets, Lies and the Shaping of a Modern Nation by Ian Cobain

$28.00 AUD

Category: International

In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should, be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As successive governments have been selective about wh at they choose to share with the public, we have been left with a distorted and incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but of our nation's culture and its past. In this important new book, Ian Cobain offers a fresh appraisal of some of the key moments in British history since the end of WWII, including: the measures taken to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park and its successor, GCHQ, for three decades; the unreported wars fought during the 1960s and 1970s; the hidden links with terrorist cells during the Troubles; the sometimes opaque workings of the criminal justice system; the state's peacetime surveillance techniques; and the convenient loopholes in the Freedom of Information Act. Drawing on previously unseen material and rigorous research, The History Thieves reveals how a complex bureaucratic machine has grown up around the British state, allowing governments to evade accountability and their secrets to be buried. ...Show more

The Best of Petty - A Collection of Satirical Cartoons from The Australian

$13.00 AUD

Category: Australian

BEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL CARTOONS 2007 by RADCLIFFE RUSS

$14.50 AUD

Category: Australian

Australia's funniest and most subversive political cartoonists are at their sharpest and wittiest in the latestÊentry in this bestselling series. Serving as anÊalternative pictorial history,Êthis is an indispensable portrait of a momentous year in Australian politics and a tribute to the art, power, and wit ofÊAustralia's finest cartoonistsÑsuch as Dean Alston, Michael Atchison, Mark Knight, and Jon Kudelka. Ê ...Show more

Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 by Russ Radcliffe

$18.50 AUD

Category: Australian

Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists are already back on the job, pencils sharpened and eager to draw fresh blood. The seventh edition of this bestselling series features the work of editorial cartoonists from all around Australia, including Alston, Brown, Davidson, Dyson, Kata uskas, Knight, Kudelka, Leahy, Leak, Moir, Nicholson, O'Farrell, Petty, Pope, Rowe, Spooner, Tandberg, Weldon, and many more. Not just a collection, more a subversive first draft of history, Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009 is the essential guide to the new Labor era. ...Show more

BEHIND THE LINES (2008) by NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA

$14.50 AUD

Category: Australian

Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Cartoons 2008 brings together the best Australian political cartoons and illustrations collected by the National Museum of Australia in 2008. Cartoons from major city newspapers are represented along with examples from regional publications. The exhibition will track th e major events of the year including Kevin Rudd's first year in office, the Apology, the 20/20 summit and the increasing concern over rising fuel costs. ...Show more