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Politics

Comrade Corbyn by Rosa Prince

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November 2016, no. 386
Simon Tormey reviews 'Comrade Corbyn' by Rosa Prince

In an extraordinary year for British politics the gloriously unexpected triumph of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party’s leadership election in September 2015 probably ranks ...

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A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji struggle, after the walk-off by Charlie Ward

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November 2016, no. 386
Timothy Neale reviews 'A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji struggle, after the walk-off' by Charlie Ward

The iconography of Indigenous land rights in Australia is fundamentally deceptive. Take, for example, the famous photograph of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pouring red ...

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The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston

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October 2016, no. 385
David Smith reviews 'The Making of Donald Trump' by David Cay Johnston

This is an angry book. David Cay Johnston has been doing investigative reporting on Donald Trump's business practices for nearly three decades, and this book is a compilation of ...

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Dark Money: The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right by Jane Mayer

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October 2016, no. 385
James McNamara reviews 'Dark Money: The hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right' by Jane Mayer

When I arrived in America, green card in hand, I soon got down to my favourite pastime: discussing politics over grain-based liquor. I was surprised to find that President Barack ...

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Firing Line: Australia's path to war (Quarterly Essay 62) by James Brown

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August 2016, no. 383
Lucas Grainger-Brown reviews 'Firing Line: Australia's path to war' (Quarterly Essay 62) by James Brown

Australians must start 'thinking like hawks, while moving like doves', James Brown asserts in his viscerally illustrated but poorly argued Firing Line: Australia's path to war ...

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Offshore: Behind The wire on Manus and Nauru by Madeline Gleeson

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August 2016, no. 383
Peter Mares reviews 'Offshore: Behind the wire on Manus and Nauru' by Madeline Gleeson

This month marks a grim anniversary: four years ago, in August 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard re-introduced a policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers ...

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The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson, with Patricia Drum

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August 2016, no. 383
Neal Blewett reviews 'The Killing Season Uncut' by Sarah Ferguson with Patricia Drum

Books have long provided fodder for films and television. Now films and television series, particularly documentaries, spawn books. The Killing Season Uncut is a ...

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Credlin & Co by Aaron Patrick & The Road to Ruin by Niki Savva

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June–July 2016, no. 382
Lucas Grainger-Brown reviews 'Credlin & Co.' by Aaron Patrick and 'The Road to Ruin' by Niki Savva

In August 2014, then Prime Minister Tony Abbott gave a short speech disagreeing with the contention put forward in Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise ...

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Settling the Office: The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction by Paul Strangio, Paul 't Hart, and James Walter

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May 2016, no. 381
Stephen Mills reviews 'Settling the Office: The Australian Prime Ministership from Federation to Reconstruction' by Paul Strangio, Paul 't Hart, and James Walter

In the early years after Federation, Australia's first prime minister, Edmund Barton, was accommodated on the top floor of the Victorian Parliament in Spring Street, in a converted garret. At the end of a parliamentary day, the convivial Barton would invite ministerial colleagues up to the flat where they would talk long into the night. Then, as one senator later re ...

Machine Rules: A Political Primer by Stephen Loosley

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March 2016, no. 379
Joel Deane reviews 'Machine Rules' by Stephen Loosley

Mark Latham – former columnist for the Australian Financial Review, former 'special correspondent' for Sixty Minutes, former federal leader of the Australian Labor Party – wasn't the only politician to keep a diary. Writing in The Latham Diaries (2005) – a book most politicians and apparatchiks approach via the index – Latham revea ...

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