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  • Who Dares Loses

    Pariah Policies

    by Wayne Errington, Peter Onselen ...
    Series series In the National Interest
    Why does Australia go through cycles of public policy boldness and timidity? The COVID-19 crisis has shown that the Australian political system has much more tolerance for policy innovation than appeared to be the case on the evidence of the previous twenty years. As another election approaches, though, the signs are that both major parties are keen for a return to policy caution. In Who Dares ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Where To from Here

    A Path to Canadian Prosperity

    by Bill Morneau ...
    National BestsellerBill Morneau’s experience as Canada’s finance minister crystalized his vision for the country’s potential for growth and prosperity. Where To from Here looks backward with coolness and candor and forward with a fresh vision of all that Canada can — and must — become.Much of the world reacted with surprise and admiration to the results of the 2015 Canadian federal election and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unaccountable

    Truth and Lies on Parliament Hill

    by Kevin Page ...
    A unique insider's account of the Harper government so damning that it cannot be ignoredIn March 2008, Kevin Page was appointed by the federal Conservatives to be the country's first Parliamentary Budget Officer. The move fulfilled a Tory campaign promise to deliver greater government transparency and accountability. He was later denounced by the same people who appointed him to scrutinize their ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Corruption of Capitalism

    Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay

    by Guy Standing ...
    Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the owners of property – financial, physical and intellectual – at the expense of society. Wages stagnate as labour markets are transformed by outsourcing, automation and the on-demand economy, generating ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gen F'd?

    How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures

    by Alison Pennington ...
    Series series The Crikey Read
    In Gen F'd? economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia’s history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie Grant Books.Young people today are digital natives, encouraged to market their own uniqueness and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 78 The Coal Curse

    Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future

    by Judith Brett ...
    Series Book 78 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country – heavy on raw materials, and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep’s back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG. So must we double down on fossil fuels, now that COVID-19 has halted the flow of international students and tourists? Or is there a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • This Time No Mistakes

    How to Remake Britain

    by Will Hutton ...
    'This Time No Mistakes is a brilliant book... an intellectual, historical, political read with some strong themes... read it if you haven't already.' Keir Starmer'Represents the beginning of a new, urgent debate. The era that defined economics since the end of the Cold War is now giving way to more activist governments and a very different kind of globalisation, necessitating new economic ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • Balancing Act

    Australia Between Recession and Renewal; Quarterly Essay 61

    by George Megalogenis ...
    Series Book 61 - Quarterly Essay
    In this urgent essay, George Megalogenis argues that Australia risks becoming globalisation’s next and most unnecessary victim. The next shock, whenever it comes, will find us with our economic guard down, and a political system that has shredded its authority.Megalogenis outlines the challenge for Malcolm Turnbull and his government. Our tax system is unfair and we have failed to invest in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • What's the Big Idea?

    30 Years of the Australia Institute

    Edited by Anna Chang, Alice Grundy ...
    Leading thinkers from Australia and around the world outline how we can make change for the betterThe Australia Institute has spent the last 30 years producing research that matters, and this anthology offers fresh thinking about climate action, how to safeguard our democracy, the importance of bravery in policymaking, and how to address some of the biggest issues of our day: from gender-based ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dick Smith's Population Crisis

    The dangers of unsustainable growth for Australia

    by Dick Smith ...
    Dick Smith takes on the hot topic of our times, arguing that Australian and global population growth carries enormous risks, dangers that none of our political parties is prepared to address.In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. Australia will be deeply ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Inequality of Wealth

    Why it Matters and How to Fix it

    by Liam Byrne ...
    The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can't afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the future will be even worse. Much worse. But things don't have to be like this.In this bold new book, former Treasury Minister Liam Byrne explains why wealth inequality has grown so fast in recent years; warns how it threatens our society, economy and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • A Good African Story

    How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand

    by Andrew Rugasira ...
    Since it was founded in 2003, Good African Coffee has helped thousands of farmers earn a decent living, send their children to school and escape a spiral of debt and dependence. Africa has received over $1 trillion in aid over the last fifty years and yet despite these huge inflows, the continent remains mired in poverty, disease and systemic corruption.In A Good African Story, as Andrew Rugasira ... Read more

    $14.59 USD