The Song Remains the Same

Wrong Way

Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the worl...

Political history at its best. This is the story of the hard right in Australia - of how Ray Evan...

George Seddon

Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land,...

Hugh Stretton

One of Australia's leading thinkers for close to fifty years, Donald Horne was probably the best ...

We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Au...

'We've had the run of planet earth for the last few hundred thousand years: this amazing blue gre...

Recently the alarm has been raised - basic freedoms are under attack in our universities. A gener...

A fascinating and authoritative portrait of the 'Big 4' accounting firms: Deloitte, Pricewaterhou...

Trespassing bees, murderous zebras, reasonable cows ... Ever since biblical times, animals have b...

This first-ever collection of Australian poet Judith Wright's nonfiction is a compelling portrait...

The welfare state is one of the crowning achievements of the twentieth century, giving citizens a...

Machines Behaving Badly

Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen...

A collection of passionate essays from religious leaders arguing for a First Nations Voice to be ...

Harold Holt was a pivotal prime minister in Australian history. Ambitious, modern and telegenic, ...

This meticulously researched and wryly entertaining portrait of Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965) foc...

In this thought-provoking and timely examination, academic and writer Michael Wesley asks what Au...

The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly sho...

Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the arch...

One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to c...

A landmark book - the first full political history of Australia. In this compelling and comprehen...

A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play...

A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early MelbourneMadame Brussels...

The incredible story of the resilience and recovery of Australia's First Nations languagesAustral...

A masterful portrait of a major Australian writer, her incandescent poetry and her battles to be ...

A new path for Australia, by an eminent economist and author of the bestselling SuperpowerCould A...

The recollections of Australia's leading public intellectualRobert Manne is one of Australia's mo...

The gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer and her career-criminal sonWhen Mary ...

A historian like no other, John Hirst captured what is distinctive about AustraliaJohn Hirst was ...

The full story of an Australian literary enigmaWhy did Elizabeth Harrower - one of Australia's mo...