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Mind of the Nation
In this thought-provoking and timely examination, academic and writer Michael Wesley asks what Australians really think and how they feel about our universities, and where to …
Half Deaf, Completely Mad
The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, The Go-Betweens, Hunters & Collectors, Cold Chisel, The Saints, The Cruel Sea and so many …
Killing for Country: A Family Story
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australias frontier warsDavid Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years …
Good, the Bad and the Unlikely
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister …
I Had a Father in Karratha
What happens when your father dies and you fly across to lay him to rest and find his estate is a spectacular mess of hoarded junk, bank debts, lost paperwork and rundown …
Penny Wong
An updated and extended edition of the bestselling biography of one of the most talented, poised and respected Australian politicians'What Simons has excavated from the background …
Donald Horne
The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nations imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could changeIn the 1960s, Donald Horne …
Australia's Pivot to India
A thoroughly absorbing, must-read examination of why Australia's relationship with India might hold the key to our future, by federal MP Andrew CharltonThe time has come for …
Great Divide
What caused Australias housing crisis - and how we might fix itOne of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population …
Things We Live With
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect usThis is how I became interested in things. In their strange …
Helena Rubinstein
The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behind'Because of Trumbles surgical precision, …