Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War; Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America by Hugh White
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Category: Current Affairs
Is the US-Australia alliance now based on a fantasy? In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia's fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position - what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? White considers t ...Show more
Rise of the Extreme Right: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: The New Global Extremism and the Threat to Democracy by Lydia Khalil
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
ASIO says right-wing extremism now makes up half its case load, and that it anticipates a terrorist attack on Australian soil within the year. There is a 250% increase in right-wing terrorism globally since 2014. But what exactly is right-wing extremism? Why is it a global problem? How does it threaten ...Show more
The Chaser and Shovel Annual 2022 by The Chaser
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Category: Current Affairs
The Chaser and Shovel Annual 2022 brings you all the highlights from The Chaser and The Shovel websites (and some of the low-lights), as well as fresh original content, that makes it the perfect gift for anyone you can't think of a better gift for.It was the year of change. A despised government was thr ...Show more
How Economics Can Save the World by Erik Angner
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Category: Current Affairs
Economics has the power to make the world a better, happier and safer place- this book shows you howOur world is in a mess. The challenges of climate change, inequality, hunger and a global pandemic mean our way of life seems more imperilled and society more divided than ever; but economics can help! Fr ...Show more
The War Came to Us - Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller
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Category: Current Affairs
'Vivid... Shocking... [Miller] brings a seasoned, personal perspective to his account of both the 16-month conflict and its wider roots.'Daily Telegraph'An eye-opening and deeply touching inside story of the country's long fight for freedom against Russian aggression.'WaterstonesA breathtaking explorati ...Show more
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO by Peter Apps
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Category: Current Affairs
'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFEThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that ...Show more
The Men Who Killed the News by Eric Beecher
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Category: Current Affairs
Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls - from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk - and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs. What's gone wrong with our media? Eric Beecher's answer is: its owners, ma ...Show more
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
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Category: Current Affairs
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The Shock Doctrine" cracks open the ...Show more
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
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Category: Current Affairs
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Rise and Rise of Australian Feminism by Emily Maguire
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Category: Current Affairs
Women must quit their jobs when they marry. They are barred from trade unions and universities. Their husbands can legally rape them. And they are not allowed to vote. This could be the reality in Australia today — if it weren’t for the many women who, over more than a century of activism, fought for ch ...Show more
On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Ser.
What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her story ripped the curtain back not just on political ...Show more
Our Unstable Neighbourhood: The Contest for South-East Asia: Australian Foreign Affairs 15 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Current Affairs
As the great powers clash in South-East Asia, how will Australia secure its interests in the region?The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the challenges confronting South-East Asia as it finds itself at the epicentre of the rivalry between the United States and China.Our Unstable Neigh ...Show more