The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our li ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede Anthology by Judith Neilson Institute
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Nine Australian writers, mentored by nine experienced Australian journalists, developed stories that they knew needed to be shared. With direction from Amanda Hooton of GW, Claire Keenan explores Catholicism in rural Australia, ...Show more
Lower North Shore Pictorial History by Catherine Warne
24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Pictorial History Lower North Shore was first released in 1984 and reprinted in 1987, with a new edition printed in 2014. This edition is completely revised and updated. The book covers the North Shore from Milson's Point, taking in North Sydney, Lavender Bay, Willoughby, Chatswood, Crows Nest, St Leona ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia, and offers a solution for genuinely affordable housing for those who need it. Everyone claims to want affordable housing, but no one wants cheap housing. While Australians on regular incomes dre ...Show more
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay #93) 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
Life As We Knew It: the extraordinary story of Australia's pandemic by Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham
35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
It was never part of the plan that Australia would be locked down and shut off from the world for two years. But when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in 2020, and the bodies began piling up overseas, Australians took unprecedented steps to avoid a catastrophe heading their way. The country’s near-eliminat ...Show more
Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
26.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more
Red White and Blown Is the US a Cult? by Guy Rundle
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
From renowned journalist Guy Rundle, Red, White and Blown is a piercing and provocative investigation into the United States' resolute failure to reckon with its own divisions and blind spots. Interrogating the political events of the 2022 midterm elections as well as their cultural and historical backd ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
Gladys: A Leader's Undoing by Paul Farrell
19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Gladys Berejiklian was one of Australia's most popular premiers. Forging a path for New South Wales through the difficult early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she seemed unstoppable. But it all came crashing down. In one of the most staggering falls from grace in Australian political history, Berejiklia ...Show more
Forgotten Gardens - The story of the last market gardens in Willoughby and Northbridge NSW by RANNARD, IAN
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Pictorial
For over one hundred years there were market gardens along the valley of upper Sailors Bay Creek in the present day suburbs of Willoughby and Northbridge on Sydney's North Shore. Once a prominent feature in the district, they faded from the community's memory until one of their sites was mistakenly th ...Show more