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The Age of Carnivores

How Australia Can Navigate the New Global Order

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Welcome to the jungle, Australia …The world is 'made up of herbivores and carnivores', French President Emmanuel Macron said. And the meat-eaters are circling. China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are banding together. We have an expansionist America under President Trump and his merry band of disruptors.In this gripping book, leading journalist and commentator Peter Hartcher explores what all this ... Read more

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Welcome to the jungle, Australia …The world is 'made up of herbivores and carnivores', French President Emmanuel Macron said. And the meat-eaters are circling. China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are banding together. We have an expansionist America under President Trump and his merry band of disruptors.In this gripping book, leading journalist and commentator Peter Hartcher explores what all this
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Red Zone

China's Challenge and Australia's Future

by Peter Hartcher ...

What does China want from Australia? In this incisive and original book, Peter Hartcher reveals how decades of economic dependence left Australia open to the strategic ambitions of the most successful authoritarian regime in modern history. He shows how ideology, paranoia and Xi Jinping’s personal story have reshaped China, and shines new light on Beijing’s overt and covert campaign for influence ... Read more

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What does China want from Australia? In this incisive and original book, Peter Hartcher reveals how decades of economic dependence left Australia open to the strategic ambitions of the most successful authoritarian regime in modern history. He shows how ideology, paranoia and Xi Jinping’s personal story have reshaped China, and shines new light on Beijing’s overt and covert campaign for influence
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To the Bitter End

The dramatic story of the fall of John Howard and the rise of Kevin Rudd

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On 24 November 2007 Australia resoundingly changed government. If you think you know what really happened during that tumultuous year behind the closed doors of the Liberal Party, in the back rooms of the ACTU and deep in the campaign war room of the Labor Party, think again.2007 was a year to remember in Australian politics. It saw the dramatic fall of John Howard and the unexpected rise of Kevin ... Read more

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On 24 November 2007 Australia resoundingly changed government. If you think you know what really happened during that tumultuous year behind the closed doors of the Liberal Party, in the back rooms of the ACTU and deep in the campaign war room of the Labor Party, think again.2007 was a year to remember in Australian politics. It saw the dramatic fall of John Howard and the unexpected rise of Kevin
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Red Flag

Waking Up To China's Challenge; Quarterly Essay 76

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Series Book 76 - Quarterly Essay
A gripping examination of China’s intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia.China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and identity. But what are China’s intentions when it comes to Australia?In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows how Beijing stepped up its campaign for influence, over hearts and minds, mineral and agricultural resources, ... Read more

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A gripping examination of China’s intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia.China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and identity. But what are China’s intentions when it comes to Australia?In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows how Beijing stepped up its campaign for influence, over hearts and minds, mineral and agricultural resources,
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Bipolar Nation

How To Win the 2007 Election; Quarterly Essay 25

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Series Book 25 - Quarterly Essay
In Bipolar Nation, Peter Hartcher discusses the fantasies and realities at the heart of our politics. When our political leaders look at us, what do they see? What are the hopes, fears and dreams of the Australian electorate, and how might they be turned to election- winning advantage? What, most fundamentally, do we want in a prime minister?In this scintillating and original essay, Peter Hartcher ... Read more

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In Bipolar Nation, Peter Hartcher discusses the fantasies and realities at the heart of our politics. When our political leaders look at us, what do they see? What are the hopes, fears and dreams of the Australian electorate, and how might they be turned to election- winning advantage? What, most fundamentally, do we want in a prime minister?In this scintillating and original essay, Peter Hartcher
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What does China want from Australia? In this incisive and original book, Peter Hartcher reveals how decades of economic dependence has left Australia open to the strategic ambitions of the most successful authoritarian regime in modern history. He shows how ideology, paranoia and Xi Jinping’s personal story have reshaped China, and shines new light on Beijing’s overt and covert campaign for ... Read more

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What does China want from Australia? In this incisive and original book, Peter Hartcher reveals how decades of economic dependence has left Australia open to the strategic ambitions of the most successful authoritarian regime in modern history. He shows how ideology, paranoia and Xi Jinping’s personal story have reshaped China, and shines new light on Beijing’s overt and covert campaign for
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The Last Correspondent

Dispatches from the frontline of Xi’s new China

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The ultimate insider’s account: living and working in China in a period of unprecedented economic and social upheavalIt was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking.A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents ... Read more

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The ultimate insider’s account: living and working in China in a period of unprecedented economic and social upheavalIt was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking.A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign correspondents
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Cry Me a River

The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin; Quarterly Essay 77

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Award-winning journalist Margaret Simons journeys through the troubled Murray-Darling Basin exploring the politics of water, drought and food.The Murray-Darling Basin is the food bowl of Australia, and it's in trouble. What does this mean for the future - for water and crops, and for the people and towns that depend on it?In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through ... Read more

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Award-winning journalist Margaret Simons journeys through the troubled Murray-Darling Basin exploring the politics of water, drought and food.The Murray-Darling Basin is the food bowl of Australia, and it's in trouble. What does this mean for the future - for water and crops, and for the people and towns that depend on it?In Cry Me a River, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through
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The Truth About China

Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers

by Bill Birtles ...

A thrilling and provocative account of unfolding tensions between China and the West, filled with the people, stories and sticky situations from Bill Birtles' five years as ABC correspondent.'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out. ... Read more

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A thrilling and provocative account of unfolding tensions between China and the West, filled with the people, stories and sticky situations from Bill Birtles' five years as ABC correspondent.'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out.
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Quarterly Essay 78 The Coal Curse

Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future

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Series Book 78 - Quarterly Essay
Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country – heavy on raw materials, and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep’s back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG. So must we double down on fossil fuels, now that COVID-19 has halted the flow of international students and tourists? Or is there a ... Read more

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Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country – heavy on raw materials, and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep’s back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG. So must we double down on fossil fuels, now that COVID-19 has halted the flow of international students and tourists? Or is there a
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Stalking of Julia Gillard

How the media and Team Rudd brought down the prime minister

by Kerry-Anne Walsh ...

'Don't write crap. Can't be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.' Julia GillardWhen Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 June 2010 she did so with the goodwill of the majority of her party and a fawning Canberra press gallery. The man she had supplanted, Kevin Rudd, led an isolated band of angry Labor voices at this ... Read more

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'Don't write crap. Can't be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.' Julia GillardWhen Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 June 2010 she did so with the goodwill of the majority of her party and a fawning Canberra press gallery. The man she had supplanted, Kevin Rudd, led an isolated band of angry Labor voices at this
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This Brave New World

India, China, and the United States

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“By turns alarming and encouraging…Manuel delineates with clarity [why] the US must attend closely to…harmonious future relations with China and India” (Kirkus Reviews) and why our obsession with China (as once with Japan) is shortsighted.In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world’s indispensable powers—whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia ... Read more

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“By turns alarming and encouraging…Manuel delineates with clarity [why] the US must attend closely to…harmonious future relations with China and India” (Kirkus Reviews) and why our obsession with China (as once with Japan) is shortsighted.In the next decade and a half, China and India will become two of the world’s indispensable powers—whether they rise peacefully or not. During that time, Asia
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