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BARWICK by MARR DAVID
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'The brilliant biography of one of Australia's most powerful men a special book.' The Age'The best biography written by an Australian; the best biography written about an Australian.' Sir Richard KirbyFor forty years Sir Garfield Barwick stood at the centre of power in Australia.
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power by David Marr
$10.00 AUD
$22.99 (56% off)
Category: REM Australian Studies
"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: Australian Studies
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
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
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
Quarterly Essay 59: Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path To Power by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The top job is within Bill Shorten's grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country? In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidab ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | 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 Henson Case by David Marr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
The Australian Prime Minister called them 'absolutely revolting'. Their removal from a Sydney art gallery was hailed by the Daily Telegraphas a 'Victory for Decency'. Cate Blanchett and members of the arts community claimed charges laid over them would affect Australia's cultural reputation. Only now do ...Show more
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
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: Australian Studies
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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