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Sydney: Harper / HarperCollins, 2022. Paperback octavo, good condition, colour photos, single black & white photo, spine & covers little creased, rear hinge slightly split (pages firm), minor edgewear cover corner tips. 306 pp. After embarking on his political career as a student, Joe Hockey worked tirelessly to rise through the ranks of the Liberal Party, learning pivotal lessons… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2020. Paperback octavo, very good condition, pages lightly toned, corner tips covers & few pages lightly creased, minor edgewear. 438 pp. This book looks at the truth behind Australia's two decades of climate inaction. It is the story of how a loose confederation of influential climate-science sceptics, politicians and business leaders sought to control Australia's… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2021. Paperback octavo, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 330 pp. Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen examine the trials and tribulations of Scott Morrison, the 30th Australian prime minister. Investigating his unlikely rise to the Liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, they put his leadership under the spotlight. They cover his disastrous management of… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Penguin Group Australia, 2014. Paperback small trade, very good condition, light crease front cover near spine, minor edgewear, faint sticker mark rear cover. 84 pp. In this witty book, Bob Ellis, the well-loved Australian gadfly and wordsmith, investigates dislocation and security, competence and charisma, youth and old age, and other hidden irreverent facts of Australian life.

Sydney: Penguin Random House Australia, 2014. Paperback small trade, very good condition, minor edgewear, faint sticker mark rear cover. 163 pp. The impressive story of the Scottish soldier who was the innovative governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. Governor Lachlan Macquarie was a reformer and an emancipator. He believed a person’s worth - be they gentry,… Read more about this item

Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, pictorial card cover, black & white text-photos, page edges little rubbed (few minimal tears), pages lightly toned (inside covers toned), minor edgewear, old price marks. 208 pp. A long overdue biography of John Cain, controversial Labor Premier of Victoria, as well as politics in Victoria from 1917 to… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Black Inc., 2016. Revised ed.. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, minor edgewear. 196 pp. David Marr provides a political biography of Bill Shorten, Federal minister during the Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard Labor governments, and later Opposition leader during the Abbott and Turnbull Coalition governments. The author traces the career of a Labor warrior, brilliant recruiter and… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, rear cover little creased, minor edgewear. 294 pp. Brook Turner relates the story of the people in the safest Liberal seats who wore teal, pink and purple T-shirts, turned up at railway stations at dawn and danced through shopping centres at lunch time. They wanted real action… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2019. Paperback octavo, good condition (intact reading copy), black & white photos centre spread, front cover creased, laminate lifting fore-edge front & rear covers, bottom corner creased first few pages, some edgewear. 397 pp. Nikki Savva, an informed political journalist, reveals the inside story of a bungled coup that overthrew the Liberal prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull,… Read more about this item

Melbourne, Carlton: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2015. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, slight crease rear cover, minor edgewear. 257 pp. John Brumby offers a series of practical lessons on leadership and public life from his 30 years in politics. He gives insights into the opportunities and challenges Australia currently faces and argues for real political… Read more about this item

Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2014. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 291 pp. Mark Latham joined the Labor Party in the late 1970s hoping to improve people's lives through parliamentary service. But 25 years later, the then Opposition Leader ended up disillusioned, as pithily reported in 'The Latham Diaries', which ensured he had burned his political bridges, Latham is… Read more about this item

Sydney: HarperCollins, 2022. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, minor edgewear front cover corner tips. 324 pp. Journalist Aaron Patrick reveals the egos, alliances and thwarted power that left a trail of personal destruction across the Australian political world, during the time of Scott Morrison as prime Minister. The author reveals the stories behind the its biggest… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2019. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 199 pp. Australia is one of only a few countries in the world that enforce compulsory voting at elections, We celebrate this with barbecues and cake stalls at polling stations, and election parties that spill over into Sunday morning. The author is the celebrated historian Judith Brett, the… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2015. New ed.. Paperback small trade, very good condition, light toning pages, bottom corner tip front cover little creased. 166 pp. This book of essays addresses the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's Labor government on November 11, 1975. Thirty Australians recall the events of that day and the days and weeks that followed. From Bob… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2018. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 294 pp. Kerry-Anne Walsh examines the ups and downs of the One Nation party and its leader, the controversial rightwing Australian politician Pauline Hanson. Is Hanson truly a champion of the battler and disaffected Australian, or just populist and attention seeking? The author provides a narrative formulated… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998. Paperback large trade, very good condition, spine lightly faded as common, front flyleaf little toned, edges lightly foxed, minor edgewear. 258 pp. The Rise of Colonial Nationalism (Allen & Unwin, 1998). This book, edited by two Australian academic historians, explores the first sense of nationalism in the Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and white South… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Black Inc., 2017. Revised ed.. Paperback trade, as new condition. 243 pp. Revised edition, with a new essay on Malcolm Turnbull in Power. The Australian political journalist incisively analyses the problems and dysfunction in current Australian governance, in particular hollowing out of the public service from frequent restructuring. Based on two Quarterly Essays: Great Expectations and Political Amnesia.… Read more about this item

Sydney: HarperCollins, 1997. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white drawing, pages lightly toned, spine little creased (binding error), some edgewear. 278 pp. Donald Horne, the noted historian and intellectual, has produced the widest, most irreverent, and most accessible range of Australian political ideas - set in their worldwide context, ever brought together in an Australian book. This… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2014. Revised ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good plus condition, minimal edgewear. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 560 pp. Drawing on more than 60 interviews with all the major players, a senior journalist from "The Australian" provides an inside account of the hopes, achievements and bitter failures of… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2016. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, light crease in front cover, light sticker mark rear cover, minor edgewear. 200 pp. This book is about the replacement of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot with Malcolm Turnbull. The narrow election victory may have justified the gamble to place him in office. Shows concerns that… Read more about this item