Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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
How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women by Jennifer Robinson, Keina Yoshida
$36.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and h ...Show more
Humanity's Moment: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope by Joëlle Gergis
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Acknowledging that the world as we know it is coming apart is an act of courage. If I live to look back at this troubled time, I want to say that I did all that I could, that I was on the right side of history. The question is, do you want to be part of the legacy that restores our faith in humanity? Wh ...Show more
Prisoner X by Rafael Epstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
The urgent phone call comes from behind the barbed wire. 'This is Ayalong prison,' says one of the guards urgently. 'Listen, he hanged himself, we need an ambulance.' Prisoner X, just 34 years old, was slumped in a small bathroom, separated from his cell by a transparent door. Kept in one of the most te ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
An urgent call to arms from the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courage in the face of the Russian invasion has inspired the world and turned him overnight into a global beacon of democracy The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with h ...Show more
Born Into This by Adam Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
The stories in Born Into This throw light on a world of unique cultural practice and perspective, from Indigenous rangers trying to instil some pride in wayward urban teens on the harsh islands off the coast of Tasmania, to those scraping by on the margins of white society railroaded into complex and co ...Show more
Courtiers: The inside story of the Palace power struggles from the Royal correspondent who revealed the bullying allegations by Valentine Low
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
Who advises the royal family, what influence do they have and how have they shaped history?Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its courtiers - the trusted advisers in the King or Queen's inner circle - to ensure its survival as a family, an ancient institution, and a pillar of the con ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7 | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER 'A fiercely entertaining mystery story and ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy by Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens
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Category: New Current Affairs
In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate - and the threats it now faces.In a healthy democracy we need the capacity to disagree. Yet Aly and Stephens note a growing tendency to dismiss and exile opponents, to treat them with contemp ...Show more