Home Work Essays on Love & Housekeeping by Helen Hayward
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics & society
When Helen Hayward had her two children in London, 25 years ago, she found looking after them easy. Loving and looking after her kids was straightforward. However loving and looking after her home was not. She had long been instructed to put her career first. So she did. Yet what to do with the mushroom ...Show more
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
Our Voices From The Heart by Patricia Anderson AO, Professor Megan Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itse ...Show more
Yeah, Nah!: A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are by William McInnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
Join bestselling Australian storyteller William McInnes as he reflects on Australia's way of life and gives us his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. Whether we are bunging it on or behaving like a drongo, Australians have a turn of phrase for every situation that helps us. Our lin ...Show more
You Called an Ambulance for What? by Tim Booth
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency call-out for someone short of breath turns out to be an adult man with a blocked nose. Far from beginner's luck, this turns out to be an omen for the rest of his paramedic career. Between the obligatory stories of objects lodged in body cavities to grown me ...Show more
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics & society
Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new i ...Show more
Better Bed Manners: A Humorous 1930s Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives by Anne Balliol, Ralph Y. Hopton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
A humorous advice book, offering tips on bedroom manners. Have you ever needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse? How to convalesce in style? Have you pondered the etiquette of staying in a haunted house? Better Bed Manners, originally published in the 1930s, has the answers you seek. ...Show more
Time to Listen An Indigenous Voice to Parliament by Melissa Castan, Lynette Russell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics & society | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 2023, debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament swirls around us as Australia heads towards a referendum on amending the Constitution to make this Voice a reality. The idea of a ' First Nations Voice' was famously raised in 2017, when Indigenous leaders drafted the Statement from the Heart-- als ...Show more
Dear Parents: Letters from the Teacher—your children, their education, and how you can help by Gabbie Stroud
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
Written by Gabbie Stroud, author of the national bestseller Teacher, Dear Parents is a passionate call to arms for all parents to understand their role as their children's lifelong teachers, showing how they can help their kids' educators and schools achieve the best outcomes for the next generation. S ...Show more
Fair Dinkum!: Aussie Slang by H.G Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. In this attractive new pictorial guide, readers will learn to distinguish their drongos from their dropkicks and discover where our unique vernacular comes from.Discover the co ...Show more
Everything You Need to Know about the Voice by Megan Davis, George Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
In late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the Constitution. What benefits will the Voice bring? And what was the journey to this point?Everything You Need to Know About the Voice to Parliament, written by co-author of the Uluru Statement from t ...Show more
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
$16.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means. 'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people f ...Show more