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New updated edition This book will change the way you think about your country... Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years.

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Raj Patel incorporates some basic, but forgotten, economics as well as cutting-edge neuroeconomics, history, philosophy and sociology to show how the price we pay for everything - from food, to handbags, to fridges, to entertainment - is systematically distorted, reflecting neither true value nor real cost.

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A delightful portrait gallery that evokes a turbulent time. In The Whitlam Mob, Mungo gives a sharp, witty and very personal account of the main characters of the Whitlam years - from Gough and Margaret to Lionel Murphy, Bill Hayden and Jim Cairns.

(Paperback, 18th edition)

An essay about the widely acknowledged over prescription of drugs in Australia. Always conscious of the real suffering behind the frenzied consumption, it nevertheless questions the new culture of diagnosing, pathologising and prescribing.

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Shows that the resources boom, which seems like a blessing, has the potential to become a curse unless our governments take urgent action. This title maps out the pitfalls, considers what has worked overseas, and suggests a better way forward.

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In the aftermath of the 2010 election, Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. He dissects the cycle of polls, focus groups and presidential politics and explores what it has done to the prospect of serious, difficult reform and the style of our leaders. He argues that politics-as-usual has become a self-defeating game.

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Collects Kate Jennings' best short work from the last four decades. She writes incisively about manners and morals, politics and economics, feminism and the writing life. She describes America with the keen eye of an outsider, and looks back at Australia with an expatriate's frankness. A fragmented autobiography and a record of remarkable times.

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In Try Whistling This , join a perceptive critic on a pleasurable journey through music and musicians, ideas and history. Andrew Ford traces the concept of dirty dancing back to 1610, marvels at the weirdness of Percy Grainger and considers the decision of Wilhelm Furtwangler to keep conducting under the Nazis.

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Western women today have unprecedented freedom and power. In Australia we have a female prime minister and governor-general; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard's misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched a nerve.

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In this dazzling piece of reportage, Anna Krien investigates the contemporary animal kingdom and our place in it. From pets to food, from wildness to science experiments, Krien also reveals how animals are faring in this new world order. Examples range from the joyful to the deeply unsettling.

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A groundbreaking history of the settlement of Tasmania. James Boyce's book is filled with new facts and new ideas about one episode in the history of British colonialism. Combining environmental insights with a grasp of the politics of the frontier, it will change the way people view Australian colonial history.

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With limited flying experience, no support team, and only basic instruments in his tiny single-engine flying boat, Smith risked his life to make modern aviation history. His historic flight lasted seven months, and took him from Australia all around the world. In 2016 he was named "Australian Geographic's" Adventurer of the Year.

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According to the author, we need a completely new politics built on the world as we find it. In his provocative new essay, he throws out a challenge to the party of social democracy, the Labour Party - to both its true believers on the left and on its right-wing machine men.

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What did George W. Bush and John Howard do to conservatism In their wake, the conservative parties in the US and Australia seem to have lost their way. How did the Right in Australia end up in this place How might it renew itself This essay unravels the terms Right and Left, and discusses what a better conservatism might look like.

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Germaine Greer challenges white Australians to come to terms with their past and present relationship with the indigenous community. She discusses Australia's culture today, the current reconciliation process and the white guilt that she believes is destroying Australia.

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An Australian travel classic. Reminiscent of Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines , Wings of the Kite-Hawk will seduce and enthral; it will force you out of the comfortable chair and into the wilds of the bush.

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