21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy by Lucinda Holdforth
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater ...Show more
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
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Category: Current Affairs
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
Hippocrasy: How doctors are betraying their oath by Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris
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Category: Current Affairs
In Hippocrasy, two world-leading doctors — rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris — reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down. They argue that the benefits of treatments are often wildly overstated and the h ...Show more
Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity by Ross Garnaut
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Category: Current Affairs
'The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality- Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world.'-Ross Garnaut We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the ...Show more
White Terror: A Neo-Nazi Killing Spree and the Global Rise of Homegrown Terrorists by Jacob Kushner
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Category: Current Affairs
In a tour de force of investigative journalism, White Terror tells for the first time the story of the National Socialist Underground in Germany – in an engrossing global story that examines violence, modern racism and national trauma. Before the storming of the U.S. Capitol; before the mass shootings ...Show more
Monsters - A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
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Category: Current Affairs
***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*** 'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL 'Monsters is extraordina ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
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Category: Current Affairs
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Current Affairs
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
Life As We Knew It: the extraordinary story of Australia's pandemic by Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham
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Category: Current Affairs
It was never part of the plan that Australia would be locked down and shut off from the world for two years. But when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in 2020, and the bodies began piling up overseas, Australians took unprecedented steps to avoid a catastrophe heading their way. The country’s near-eliminat ...Show more
Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch by Edward Acton Cavanough
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Category: Current Affairs
A pacy must-read analysis of one of the most consequential geopolitical events in Australia's region.In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing. The decision prompted international condemn ...Show more
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire by Tim Schwab
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Category: Current Affairs
A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. From greedy to generous, from cold to kind-hearted, from rogue to hero, Bill Gates is an extraordinarily complex public figure. Yet over th ...Show more
Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian Life by Michael Wesley
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Category: Current Affairs
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 next?In 1964, Donald Horne wrote in his classic The Lucky Country that 'in a sense - Australia does not have a mind. Intellectual ...Show more