Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future by Mark McKenna
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing passionate debates and fresh recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history war ...Show more
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
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Category: Current Affairs
Dealing with the mafia, the Clintons and Trump: In A Higher Loyalty former FBI director James Comey details his experiences with some of the most important cases in USA history. In his Number One bestselling memoir, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of t ...Show more
The Pursuit of Justice by Michael Finnane
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Category: Current Affairs
There have been many biographies of Judges, and even a few barristers havepublished memoirs of their famous cases, but very few books written by a sittingQC.'The Pursuit of Justice: My life as a lawyer, judge and social justice advocate' is notjust the story of a young, ambitious man who becomes a barri ...Show more
Hyper-Capitalism: The Modern Economy, its Values, and How to Change Them by Larry;Kasser Gonick
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Category: Current Affairs
An acerbic graphic takedown of capitalismIn Hyper-Capitalism, cartoonist Larry Gonick and psychologist Tim Kasser offer a vivid and an accessible new way to understand how global, privatising, market-worshipping hyper-capitalism is threatening human well-being, social justice, and the planet.Drawing fro ...Show more
#NeverAgain by David Hogg; Lauren Hogg
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Category: Current Affairs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement. On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister, Lauren, went to school at Marjory ...Show more
Hoodwinked: How Pauline Hanson Fooled a Nation by Kerry-Anne Walsh
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Category: Current Affairs
Pauline Hanson claims to represent the average Australian but The Stalking of Julia Gillard's Kerry-Anne Walsh has discovered nothing could be further from the truth.
Whiteshift - Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
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Category: Current Affairs
Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of white majorities This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is tran ...Show more
The Knowledge Solution: Politics by Michelle Grattan
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Category: Current Affairs
Can a return to direct democracy reconnect a jaded electorate with an out-of-touch establishment? Would reforming Canberra's toxic culture lead to worthwhile debate and better decision-making? Should today's leaders look back on successful governments to learn how to lead parliament to a full term?In Th ...Show more
2062: The World that AI Made by Toby Walsh
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Category: Current Affairs
Many people think the future is something we need to adjust to, rather than what we decide through the choices we make today. This book looks at the choices we are starting to make that will define this future. The majority of experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics predict we are likely to ...Show more
The Briefing by Sean Spicer
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Category: Current Affairs
No job is more of a pressure cooker than being a White House press secretary...especially in this White House. For more than two decades, Sean Spicer had been a respected political insider, working as a campaign and communications strategist. But in December 2016, he got the call of a lifetime. Preside ...Show more
Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians by Royce Kurmelovs
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Category: Current Affairs
This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is still talked about with a sense of awe. This once-in-a-lifetime event capped off 25 straight years of economic growth. Thanks to mining we sidestepped the worst of the Global Financial ...Show more