Kieran Pender
Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War by Catherine Bond
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Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an age of fraud by Tom Mueller
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Secret: The making of Australia’s security state by Brian Toohey
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It is a famous parable. If a frog is dropped in boiling water, it will immediately leap out. But if placed in tepid water that is gradually heated, the frog will not notice the increasing temperature until it is boiled alive. The parable may be biologically inaccurate, but it remains instructive in the context of civil liberties ...
... (read more)Gun Control: What Australia got right (and wrong) by Tom Frame
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Moneyland: Why thieves and crooks now rule the world and how to take it back by Oliver Bullough
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Crossing the Line: How Australian cricket lost its way by Gideon Haigh
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The Long Hangover: Putin’s new Russia and the ghosts of the past by Shaun Walker
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Politicians in ancient Greece were well acquainted with the alluring intersection between sport and politics. Alcibiades, an ambitious aristocrat, entered seven chariots in the 416 BCE Olympics, aware of the potential political benefits. He came first, second, and fourth, later citing this ‘splendid performance’ to the Athenian ...
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