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6 produkter
Rob Riley
An Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice
Häftad, 2006
475 kr
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Widely regarded as one of the great Aboriginal leaders of the modern era, Rob Riley was at the centre of debates that have polarised views on race relations in Australia: national land rights, the treaty, deaths in custody, self-determination, the justice system, native title and the Stolen …
Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd
Häftad, 2015
247 kr
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The story of Tasmania’s most controversial forestry giant, the corruption that gave it power and the forces that brought it down.At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and was its largest private …
Adani and the War Over Coal
Häftad, 2018
287 kr
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Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics – and our country – into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael …
Wounded Country
The Murray-Darling Basin: a Contested History
Häftad, 2021
287 kr
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The Murray–Darling Basin – Australia's food bowl – is in crisis. For more than a century, a series of environmental catastrophes have brought the ecosystem to its knees: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of …
Rogue Corporations
Inside Australia's Biggest Business Scandals
Häftad, 2023
287 kr
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Crown Resorts, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten's Allied Medical Group, 7-Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…Australia has suffered from the continual sting of business scandals since corporate cowboys like Alan Bond and Christopher Skase wrought so much damage …
Hooked
Inside the Murky World of Australia’s Gambling Industry
Häftad, 2025
332 kr
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How did Big Gambling become too big to fail and too powerful to adequately regulate? Australians lose around $32 billion on legal forms of gambling each year, the most of any country in the world, while the industry rakes in $244 billion through poker machines, lotteries, casinos and the …
