The Battle For Sky: The Murdochs Disney Comcast and the Future of entertainment by WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER
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Category: Current Affairs
From perilous early years through clashes with the BBC and BT, not to mention the News Corporation bid for full control that failed in the wake of 2010's phone hacking scandal, there has been no shortage of drama in Sky's history - nor in its likely future. In 2018, the organization was the target of bi ...Show more
The Knowledge Solution: Politics by Michelle Grattan
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Category: Current Affairs
Can a return to direct democracy reconnect a jaded electorate with an out-of-touch establishment? Would reforming Canberra's toxic culture lead to worthwhile debate and better decision-making? Should today's leaders look back on successful governments to learn how to lead parliament to a full term?In Th ...Show more
2062: The World that AI Made by Toby Walsh
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Category: Current Affairs
Many people think the future is something we need to adjust to, rather than what we decide through the choices we make today. This book looks at the choices we are starting to make that will define this future. The majority of experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics predict we are likely to ...Show more
The Briefing by Sean Spicer
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Category: Current Affairs
No job is more of a pressure cooker than being a White House press secretary...especially in this White House. For more than two decades, Sean Spicer had been a respected political insider, working as a campaign and communications strategist. But in December 2016, he got the call of a lifetime. Preside ...Show more
Boom and Bust: The rise and fall of the mining industry, greed and the impact on everyday Australians by Royce Kurmelovs
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Category: Current Affairs
This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is still talked about with a sense of awe. This once-in-a-lifetime event capped off 25 straight years of economic growth. Thanks to mining we sidestepped the worst of the Global Financial ...Show more
Contempt - A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation by Ken Starr
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Category: Current Affairs
Twenty years after the Starr Report and the Clinton impeachment, former special prosecutor Ken Starr finally shares his definitive account of one of the most divisive periods in American history. You could fill a library with books about the scandals of the Clinton administration, which eventually l ...Show more
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
Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren
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Category: Current Affairs
For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices will fall while the lights stay on. Debate is reduced to two equally preposterous narratives: coal-fired, climate chan ...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