Politics
Bill Hayden, the first Queensland policeman to lead a federal political party, wrote of his experiences as a constable – the violence, the squalor, the tragedy – in his autobiography, Hayden (Angus & Robertson, 1996), and concluded: ‘All of these led me to feel a great anger at the injustices some people had to bear.’ At one point, the former governor-general noted that his ‘humanist’ reaction to injustice reflected his background as the son of a father who was an illegal immigrant and a mother who suffered domestic abuse.
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by Zora Simic •
Nuked: The submarine fiasco that sank Australia’s sovereignty by Andrew Fowler
by Marilyn Lake •
Limitarianism: The case against extreme wealth by Ingrid Robeyns
by Adrian Walsh •
Fractured Union: Politics, sovereignty and the fight to save the United Kingdom by Michael Kenny
by Ben Wellings •
The Forever War: America’s unending conflict with itself by Nick Bryant
by Timothy J. Lynch •
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung
by Geoff Raby •
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics (Quarterly Essay 93) by Lech Blaine
by Patrick Mullins •
The New World Disorder: How the West is destroying itself by Peter R. Neumann, translated by David Shaw
by William Leben •