Wrong Way: How Privatisation and Economic Reform Backfired by Damien Cahill
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Category: Current Affairs
Since the 1980s, waves of neoliberal 'economic reform' have transformed Australia. Privatisation, deregulation, marketisation and the contracting out of government services: for three decades now, there has been widespread agreement among policymakers on the desirability of these strategies. But the be ...Show more
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: Current Affairs
Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college camp ...Show more
City Life - The New Urban Australia by Seamus O'Hanlon
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Category: Current Affairs
Remember when our cities and inner-cities weren't dominated by high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes that have come with the globalisation of the Australian city since the 1970s. It tells the story of the major economic, social, cultural and demographic changes that have come with openin ...Show more
Four Flashpoints - How Asia Goes to War by Brendan Taylor
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Category: Current Affairs
Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast. Young, reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is engaging in territorial spats with the US president over nuclear missiles. Japan's nationalist government is remilitarising, throwing off the constitutional constraints imposed at the end of World W ...Show more
The People vs the Banks by Michael Roddan
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Category: Current Affairs
The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law. The day of reckoning for liars and thi ...Show more
How to Do Nothing: Resisting ... Economy by ODELL JENNY
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Category: Current Affairs
A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention--and our personal information--that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world Nothing is harder to do these days than no ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West gets him wrong by Mark Galeotti
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Category: Current Affairs
Meet the world's most dangerous man.Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose netwo ...Show more
Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Companies Are Learning from It by Brian Dumaine
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Amazon is the business story of the decade. Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines in history. Like a giant squid, Amazon's tentacles are squeezing industry after industry and, in the process, upsetting the state of technology, the economy ...Show more
Rogue Nation by Royce Kurmelovs
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Category: Current Affairs
Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism. The ...Show more
China's Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahon
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Category: Current Affairs
The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has ballooned in size, complexity, and risk. Once dominated by four state-owned banks, the nation's financial system is a tangle of shadow banking entities, informal financ ...Show more
House of Trump, House of Putin - How Vladimir Putin and the Russian Mafia Helped Put Donald Trump in the White House by Craig Unger
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Category: Current Affairs
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A bombshell.' Daily Mail 'Damning, terrifying and enraging.' The Spectator 'The story Unger weaves with his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.' The Washington Post House of Trump, ...Show more
Game Changers: What Extraordinary People and World Class Thinkers Can Teach Us about Being Smarter, Happier and More Successful by Dave Asprey
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The bestselling author of Head Strong and The Bulletproof Diet answers the question "How do I kick more ass?"--providing proven techniques for becoming happier, healthier, and smarter, culled from the wisdom and insight of world-class thought leaders and mavericks of science and business. When Dave Aspr ...Show more