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  • How to Change a Country

    A handbook for making the impossible inevitable

    This is the book with practical advice on how you make positive change in a world riddled with crises.Australia used to put asbestos in homes, used to hunt whales, used to criminalise abortion and used to lock people in jail based on their sexuality.Our parliaments have changed all that.Policies to give the biggest tax breaks to the rich – including the State 3 tax cuts and the capital gains tax ... Read more

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  • Dead Centre

    How political pragmatism is killing us: Vantage Point Issue 2

    Series Book 2 - Vantage Point
    The sensible centre. Evidence-based policy. These are not the same. In fact, they are at odds with each other.The scientific evidence tells us that building new gas, oil and coal mines will cause catastrophic climate damage this century. Yet politicians describe a call for the end of new mines as extreme. Likewise with online gambling, junk food advertising or incarcerating children: the evidence ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Affluenza

    When too much is never enough

    The Western world is in the grip of a consumerism that is unique in human history. We overwork, we spend huge amounts on things we never use, then we chuck them out. The author of the bestselling Growth Fetish pries into our wardrobes, kitchens and backyards, and shows us what choice really means.Our houses are bigger than ever, but our families are smaller. Our kids go to the best schools we can ... Read more

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  • More Fool Me

    How the gas industry tricked Australia; Vantage Point 6

    Series Book 6 - Vantage Point
    The global gas industry has pulled off the greatest con in Australia's history, and we're living with the consequences. Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, but we have been made to feel so poor that we no longer even expect the high quality, freely available public schools and hospitals we used to have. But while we are told we can't afford to have good services, Australian ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Curing Affluenza

    How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World

    Affluenza has not just changed the world, it has also changed the way we see the world. Short of money? Borrow some. Caught in the rain? Buy an umbrella. Thirsty? Buy a bottle of water and throw the bottle away. Our embrace of “convenience” and our acceptance of our inability to plan ahead is an entirely new way of thinking, and over the past seventy years we have built a new and different ... Read more

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  • Econobabble

    How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense

    Series Book 8 - Redback
    Economics is like a tyre lever: it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevitable or the inequitable seem fair. This book exposes the stupid arguments, bizarre contradictions ... Read more

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  • More Fool Me

    How the gas industry tricked Australia; Vantage Point 6

    Series Book 6 - Vantage Point
    The global gas industry has pulled off the greatest con in Australia's history, and we're living with the consequences. Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, but we have been made to feel so poor that we no longer even expect the high quality, freely available public schools and hospitals we used to have. But while we are told we can't afford to have good services, Australian ... Read more

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  • Big

    The Role of the State in the Modern Economy

    Series series In the National Interest
    Scott Morrison wants to spend a lot more money on defence, the business community wants more spending on infrastructure and education, an ageing population wants better health and aged care, and young Australians want more action on climate change and affordable housing. Each problem requires more public spending, but for decades Australians have been told that the less government spends, the ... Read more

    $26.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarterly Essay 70 Dead Right

    How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next

    Series Book 70 - Quarterly Essay
    How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial?In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society. For decades, we have been led to believe that the private sector does everything better, that governments can’t ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Australian Public Policy

    Theory and Practice

    The public policy arena is a complex framework of actors, politics and instruments. An Introduction to Australian Public Policy, Second Edition examines the broad range of models, influences and players that shape the development of public policy in Australia, and equips students with a working knowledge of both the theoretical underpinnings and real-world challenges of the field. Fully revised ... Read more

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  • Minority Policy

    Rethinking governance when parliament matters

    Topical and up to the minute, Minority Policy: Rethinking governance when parliament matters explores the influence of marginal parliamentarians both within the major parties and on the cross benches in the formations of contemporary public policy.Despite Australia having minority government in some form for almost three decades, in theoretical and popular terms it seems that this nation has not ... Read more

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    History and Australia’s Future

    by Mark McKenna ...
    Series Book 69 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past.In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move ... Read more

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