Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay #93) by Lech Blaine
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Category: Current Affairs
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
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Category: Current Affairs
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
Hoodie Economics: Changing Our Systems to Value What Matters by Jack Manning Bancroft
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Category: Current Affairs
In Hoodie Economics, Jack Manning Bancroft builds a values system revolution that centres a relational economy, offering urgent and transformative solutions to embrace Indigenous thinking and ideas from outside the margins and pushing the focus from capitalism to relationships - from the people in suits ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
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Category: Current Affairs
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night . Advice from Ask Shameless by Zara McDonald, Michelle Andrews
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Category: Current Affairs
"Since 2021, tens of thousands of readers have devoured the Ask Shameless weekly columns on dating, friendship and self-development, written by the Shameless podcasters and a team of talented young Australian writers. In 4 am, Zara and Michelle have curated forty of their very best columns alongside te ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
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Category: Current Affairs
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church by David Hardaker
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Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor, but it was too ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corproate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
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Category: Current Affairs
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War by Stephen Robinson
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Colonel John Boyd, a maverick fighter pilot, revolutionized the American art of war through his ideas on conflict and the human mind. Boyd claimed that victory is won by the side which transitions through 'decision cycles' faster than the enemy, mentally checkmating them with minimal violence. Maneuver ...Show more
On the Voice to Parliament by Charles Prouse
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Category: Current Affairs
Australia is on the brink of a landmark decision to establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament that will be enshrined in the Constitution. From there, treaty-making and truth-telling will follow. But how do we cut through the debate, get to the heart of the issue and vote in the best interests of In ...Show more
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen
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Category: Current Affairs
For several decades Chinese ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of soft power. The stories of their reach are breathtaking - Chinese-sponsored reporting in national newspapers and academia; the gagging of sports stars and huge Western brands; Hollywood self-censor ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
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Category: Current Affairs
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more