Big Blue Sky by Peter Garrett
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political
Peter Garrett's life so far has been deeply felt and fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, fierce intelligence and a questing and creative spirit, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives...From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney ...Show more
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life by Gretchen Rubin
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
A "WALL STREET JOURNAL" SUMMER PICKA "WASHINGTON POST" BESTSELLER Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry's last great charge and inventor of the tank, Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leadin ...Show more
Comrade Ambassador Whitlam's Beijing Envoy by Stephen Fitzgerald
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Modern Australia was in part defined by its early embrace of China. A turning from the White Australia Policy of the 1950s to to the country's acceptance of Asian immigration and engagement with Asian neighbours. It saw the far-sighted establishment of an embassy in Beijing in the 1970s by Gough Whitlam ...Show more
No, Minister by Allan Behm
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
No, Minister is not about the record: it is about how the record is created and managed by largely unseen people in a volatile and almost always unpredictable environment. It delivers forensic analysis of what goes on back-stage as politicians prosecute their wars of mutual annihilation, the impact a Ch ...Show more
Being Berlusconi: the Rise and Fall from Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga by Michael Day
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political
People from all walks of life are appalled and fascinated in equal measure by the stratospheric political career of the tycoon and three-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Michael Day provides an in depth look at the life and crimes of the shameless media mogul until his nine lives ran out ...Show more
A Fighting Chance by Warren Elizabeth
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
A New York Times bestseller by a possible 2016 Democratic Party presidential candidate. An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works - and really doesn't. As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to c ...Show more
Leadership in Action by John Cantwell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Political
Leadership is about emotions, it is about trust, it is about being authentic. John Cantwell knows this from his almost forty years of leading men and women in peace and war, through successes and in tough times as he rose through the ranks from private to general in the Australian Army. Filled with spec ...Show more
A Letter to My Children by Christopher Pyne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
Why do seemingly intelligent men and women leave their families to spend more than half the year travelling to Canberra, and spending night after night at electorate and campaign events? Surely there are easier ways to earn a living. A Letter to My Children is Christopher Pyne's honest account of how a ...Show more
Money Men, the Australia's Twelve Most Notable Treasurers by Chris Bowen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
The Money Men is the first in-depth look at the most interesting men to have held the office of Treasurer of Australia. Former Treasurer Chris Bowen brings his unique insider perspective to reveal the lessons learned from the successes and failures of twelve treasurers. From the first pioneer, George Tu ...Show more
When We Were Young (and Foolish): A Memoir of My Misguided Youth with Tony Abbott, Bob Carr and Kevin Rudd by Greg Sheridan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political
By chance, Greg Sheridan's early life saw him become intimate friends and colleagues with a fascinating list of people who now make up Australia's political leadership. At university Tony Abbott was his best friend; he became close to Peter Costello as well as Labor figures Michael Danby and Michael Eas ...Show more
My Story (Julia Gillard) by Julia Gillard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political
Featuring new material. 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.' On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minis ...Show more
Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition by Sonia Purnell
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political
A major and controversial new biography of one of the most compelling and contradictory figures in modern British life. Born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to most of us he is just 'Boris' - the only politician of the age to be regarded in such familiar, even affectionate terms. Uniquely, he combin ...Show more