Return to the Hunter by Scott Bevan
39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The original story reprinted, with additional chapters telling of a new paddling adventure. After heading home from overseas, Newcastle-born writer and journalist Scott Bevan paddled the Hunter River in 2011 to reconnect with who he was and where he was from. That journey in a kayak led to the accl ...Show more
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The award-winning author of Sand Talk returns with a formidably original yarn with Indigenous thought leaders from around the globe. Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta's bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, 'an extraordinary invitation into the w ...Show more
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth, Frank Bongiorno
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A little book about the big history of one of Australia’s most important institutions The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. This short, sharp history tells the story of the party’s formation, its successes and failures at winning ...Show more
Galah: Stories of Life Outside the City by Annabelle Hickson
69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Pictorial
It can be easy to assume nothing much happens beyond the city, if that's all you've known. But that, of course, is far from the truth. Here, across six themed chapters, journalist Annabelle Hickson shares a different perspective on life in regional Australia, featuring stories from the coast to the f ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
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
Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison by James Phelps
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
THE NEW BOOK FROM AUSTRALIA'S BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME AUTHOR In a long-awaited return to his best-selling prison series, James Phelps will lift the lid on Australia's most infamous prison - HM Prison Pentridge, the former home of Mark 'Chopper' Reed and Ned Kelly.From Jika Jika to the execution of Ronald ...Show more
The Exoneration Papers: Sue Neill-Fraser by Andrew L. Urban
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Never faltering in her claim of innocence, Sue Neill-Fraser was released on parole in October 2022, after 13 dark years in a Hobart prison for murdering her partner Bob Chappell. But her rightful fight to quash her wrongful conviction continues. This book reveals the entire shocking case of Sue Neill-Fr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia by Sarah Krasnostein
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
How can we mend Australia's broken mental health system? Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done? In this brilli ...Show more
Tracy - 50 Years 50 Stories by Derek Pugh (Editor); Richard Creswick (Editor)
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
50 stories from survivors of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin on Christmas Eve in 1974.Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a s ...Show more
Courting Power: Law, Democracy & the Public Interest in Australia by Isabelle Reinecke
19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Courts aren’t just there to settle divorces, sentence law-breakers and resolve corporate disputes. A healthy legal system, one that ensures access, transparency and accountability, is fundamental to democracy. When the system works, the courts act as a check on government power, holding our politicians ...Show more
The Post-Pandemic Child by Kim Cornish
19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In March 2020, schools and childcare centres across Australia were forced to close to control the spread of the recently arrived novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Families and carers suddenly had to adjust to long periods of home-schooling, disparities in the availability of technology, loss of social conne ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
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