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  • The Lost Decade: Cost of living, energy, taxation, red tape - how Australia lost its way how governments can regain trust and offer hope for the future, for readers of Abundance and How They Get You

    by Peter van Onselen, Richard Holden ...
    A sweeping, scathing look at the last ten years of squandered opportunity in Australia, as politicians with vision and ideas for reform gave way to personality clashes, compromise and sloganeering - and what reforms are needed for a prosperous future, by two of Australia's eminent political and economic journalists in the vein of Paul Kelly's End of Certainty.The Lost Decade traces the lost decade ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Who Dares Loses

    Pariah Policies

    by Wayne Errington, Peter van 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

    $5.89 USD

  • How Good is Scott Morrison?

    by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington ...
    Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight.Covering Morrison's disastrous management of the catastrophic bushfire season that was highlighted by the extraordinary ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Howard's End

    The Unravelling Of A Government

    by Peter van Onselen, Philip Senior ...
    From the co-writer of John Winston Howard, the definitive biography of the Prime Minister, comes Howard's End, which takes us behind the scenes of both parties on the announcement of the election campaign and traces the stunning collapse of the Coalition in its last year in government.Peter van Onselen and Philip Senior piece together the events in the year leading up to the 2007 federal election, ... Read more

    $18.77 USD

  • Liberals And Power

    The Road Ahead

    by Peter van Onselen ...
    Peter van Onselen, the co-author of John Winston Howard: The Definitive Biography and Howard's End, has put together a vibrant collection of essays that offers policy analysis, political philosophy and election-winning strategies. They look at Howard's reign and legacy, and craft a narrative for the future.Liberals and Power is compelling reading for anyone interested in a healthy party political ... Read more

    $16.60 USD

  • Professionals or Part-timers?

    Major Party Senators in Australia

    by Peter van Onselen ...
    While the minor party and independent senators might attract media attention, the overwhelming majority of Australia's upper house members are affiliated with the major political parties. These senators are highly partisan: they are dependent on the party for re-election and play a potentially vital role in assisting their parties to secure the maximum number of House of Representative seats, ... Read more

    $16.60 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 80 The High Road

    What Australia can learn from New Zealand

    by Laura Tingle ...
    Series Book 80 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And now, in the wake of COVID-19, is it time to change that?In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, character and two nations in transition. In the past half-century, both countries have remade themselves amid shifting economic ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Trivial Pursuit

    Leadership and the End of the Reform Era; Quarterly Essay 40

    by George Megalogenis ...
    Series Book 40 - Quarterly Essay
    In Trivial Pursuit George Megalogenis considers Australia's political dead zone.The Hawke, Keating and early Howard years were ones of bold reform; recently we have seen an era of power without purpose. But why? Is it down to powerful lobbies, or the media, or a failure of leadership, or all of the above? And whatever the case, how will hard decisions be taken for the future?In Trivial Pursuit, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    Old Institutions, New Challenges

    by Stewart Jackson, Joff Lelliott, Shannon Brincat, Josephine Bourne, Nick Economou ...
    The global political environment in the twenty-first century is proving dynamic and challenging for Australian policymakers and political institutions. Australian Politics in the Twenty-first Century contextualises the Australian political landscape through an institutional lens. It examines the legislative and judicial bodies, minor parties, lobby groups, the media and the citizenry, providing ... Read more

    $79.59 USD

  • Australia Reconstructed

    Bold steps to improve voter representation and the political landscape

    by Klaas Woldring ...
    This book is a plea for system change in Australia, referring to the various systems that underpin and shape governance. As the 2013 federal election approaches the many flaws in the system of government in Australia are again evident. However, they do not themselves form the focus of the election debate. During the last years the tone and quality of the parliamentary debate has become the focus ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Political Bubble

    Why Australians Don't Trust Politics

    by Mark Latham ...
    Australians once trusted the democratic process. While we got on with our lives, we assumed our politicians had our best interests at heart.Not anymore. That trust has collapsed.Mark Latham joined the Labor Party in the late 1970s hoping to improve people's lives through parliamentary service. Twenty-five years later, the Opposition Leader ended up as disillusioned as the rest of us. The scorching ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Bulldozed

    Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise

    by Niki Savva ...
    Series Book 3 - The Road to Ruin Trilogy
    WINNER OF THE 2023 ABIA GENERAL NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD‘The gripping inside story of how Scott Morrison went from miracle man to roadkill. Savva portrays a fatally flawed leader who trashed his government, his party, and his legacy.’—Laurie OakesBetween 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed by a succession ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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