The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning by Stuart Macintyre
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia. Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influen ...Show more
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
Australia's Great Depression: How a Nation Shattered by the Great War Survived the Worst Economic Crisis it has Ever Faced by Joan Beaumont
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression. Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great De ...Show more
Fair Game: Australia's First Immigrant Women by Elizabeth Rushen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In 1832, the British government sent 400 young single women to Sydney and Hobart to balance the male-dominated societies. Viewed as a colourful butterflies alighting on the antipodean shores, the women were 'fair game' for employers and potential husbands.
Outback Teacher: The inspiring story of a remarkable young woman, life with her students and their adventures in remote Australia by Sally Gare
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A charming story of a young woman who faces challenges and finds joy teaching in outback schools
The Making and Unmaking of East-West Link by James C Murphy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The definitive account of a hotly debated political project in MelbourneMelbourne's aborted East-West Link - the massive, multi-billion-dollar inner-city toll road project that promised to knit Melbourne closer together - was stymied from the start. Intense picketing and protests, multiple court challen ...Show more
Plagued: Australia's two years of hell - the inside story by Simon Benson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
This is the inside story of Australia’s two years of hell, when the country was besieged by crisis after crisis, and a rolling series of challenges and setbacks. Much of what took place behind the scenes will astonish the public. Plagued reveals how the critical decisions were actually made, decisions t ...Show more
Victory: The Inside Story of Labor's Return to Power by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The inside story of Labor's return to power. Anthony Albanese's 2022 election victory was the most consequential in decades. As well as ending a 'lost decade' of conservative rule and bringing Labor into Federal power for the first time since 2013, it ushered in a new force in politics. The victory of t ...Show more
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2022 by Russ Radcliffe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Best Australian Political Cartoons Ser.
The twentieth-anniversary edition of this much-loved annual collection brings you the last year in politics, as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. 2022- the year we slapped ourselves on the back for a job well done, and put the last few awful years behind us.Well ...Show more
Working Dogs: A photo documentary of the Australian working dog by Andrew Chapman, Melanie Faith Dove
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Australia's favourite book on working dogs is back!
Quarterly Essay 88: Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics by Katharine Murphy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A portrait of a leader in the making, and a nation on the move. In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion - a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation. Are Albanese and his party up for change? Are Australians u ...Show more