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Dark Victory: How a Government Lied Its Way to Political Triumph by David Marr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
They put lives at risk. They twisted the law. They drew the military into the heart of an election campaign. They muzzled the press. They misused intelligence services, defied the United Nations, antagonised Indonesia and bribed poverty stricken Pacific states. They closed Australia to refugees - and wo ...Show more
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power by David Marr
$23.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
"InFaction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood- to be Prime Minister of Australia. Bill Shorten is now a ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sag ...Show more
My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$40.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
Patrick White: A Life by David Marr
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
I think this book should be called The Monster of All Time. But I am a monster . . .' Patrick WhitePatrick White, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of more than a dozen novels and plays - including Voss, The Vivisector and The Twyborn Affair - lived an extraordinary life. David Marr's brilliant biogr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 26 - His Master's Voice: Public Debate in Howard's Australia by David Marr; Chris Feik (Editor)
$14.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecuted leakers, criminalised protest and shut down parliamentary scrutiny. Though touted as a contest of values, this has been a part ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 38: Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd by David Marr
$20.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
This irreverent, controversial account is sure to be one of the most talked-about publications of election year 2010 - a ground-breaking, in-depth profile that traces Kevin Rudd's years in Queensland, in China, in opposition and finally in government. Based on extensive research, observation and intervi ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 47: Political Animal: David Marr on Tony Abbott by David Marr
$20.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Winner of the 2013 John Button Prize The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book - and a crucial election-year companion. Australians want to know: what kind of man is Tony Abbott, and how would he perform as prime minister? In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows tha ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 51: The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Quarterly Essay
Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when Church's handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott. A news-breaking and definitive portrait of Pell, at a time of maximum tension and scr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
$23.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
George Pell, now a great power in Rome, leaves in his wake shocking revelations about his defence of the church, its power and its assets, as he came to grips with the scandal of child sex abuse by priests. This new edition of The Prince, significantly expanded and updated, draws on fresh evidence of Pe ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (updated edition) by David Marr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
David Marr's explosive bestseller, now expanded and fully updated.In March this year, the nation's most powerful Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, was jailed for child sexual assault. In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man, his career and his ultimate fall. Marr reveals a cleric at ease with power ...Show more
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