Showing results by publisher "Simon & Schuster Australia" in Politics & Social Sciences
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Where It All Went Wrong
- The case against John Howard
- By: Amy Remeikis
- Narrated by: Amy Remeikis
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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On the thirtieth anniversary of John Howard coming to power, a searing analysis of the untouchable prime minister: how the ‘great economic manager’ sold our future. John Howard is often revered as one of the great Australian prime ministers (1996–2007): economically prudent, politically...
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The narrator said it all truth telling
- By Anonymous on 24-02-2026
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Where It All Went Wrong
- The case against John Howard
- Narrated by: Amy Remeikis
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2026
- Language: English
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The Men Who Killed the News
- The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy
- By: Eric Beecher
- Narrated by: Eric Beecher
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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Story34
Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction Nominated for the 2025 Sperber Prize Never before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and direct US government policy. But as Crikey owner and ex-News Corp executive Eric Beecher shows...
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Honest Insight into the Murdoch empire
- By douglas mcclurg on 09-10-2024
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The Men Who Killed the News
- The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy
- Narrated by: Eric Beecher
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 30-07-2024
- Language: English
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The Brilliant Boy
- Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
- By: Gideon Haigh
- Narrated by: Gideon Haigh
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance39
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Story39
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review. In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy...
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Simply Brilliant
- By Mick on 05-08-2021
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The Brilliant Boy
- Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent
- Narrated by: Gideon Haigh
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2021
- Language: English
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The Good Fight
- Boxing, ballet and breaking stereotypes
- By: Harry Garside
- Narrated by: Andrew Hazzard
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
Life is all about triumph and tragedy. You can’t have one without the other – that’s just the contract we’ve signed in return for this short time we have here. Resilience isn’t only about bouncing back. It’s about bouncing back stronger. In The Good Fight, Harry Garside...
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Harry Garside
- By Peter Trubody on 08-10-2025
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The Good Fight
- Boxing, ballet and breaking stereotypes
- Narrated by: Andrew Hazzard
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 31-07-2024
- Language: English
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The Miracle Typist
- The powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home
- By: Leon Silver
- Narrated by: Robbie McGregor
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance89
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Story89
In the tradition of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, a heartbreaking true story of love, loss and survival against all odds during the Second World war. Conscripted into the Polish army as Hitler’s forces draw closer, Jewish soldier Tolek Klings vows to return to his wife, Klara, and son, Juliusz...
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Truthful Tale brilliantly told
- By John Iwankiw on 24-06-2021
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The Miracle Typist
- The powerful true story of one soldier's long journey home
- Narrated by: Robbie McGregor
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2020
- Language: English
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The Ten Rules of Reporting
- Journalism for the Community
- By: Alan Sunderland
- Narrated by: Alan Sunderland
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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An essential guide for reporters and aspiring reporters: the former editorial director of the ABC shares the secrets of good reporting from his life-long career in journalism. Journalism is changing. The demand for information about the world we live in has never been greater. But those charged...
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Great summary
- By Anonymous on 02-12-2025
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The Ten Rules of Reporting
- Journalism for the Community
- Narrated by: Alan Sunderland
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2022
- Language: English
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Safe Space
- My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community
- By: Alyssa Huynh
- Narrated by: Alyssa Huynh
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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'A searingly honest and impassioned account of being an advocate in the social media era, Alyssa's voice is fierce, urgent and brave; and filled with deep familial love. This book burns with an urgency and clarion call to action.' Alice Pung, author of One Hundred Days This is a book for anyone...
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Safe Space
- My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community
- Narrated by: Alyssa Huynh
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 04-06-2024
- Language: English
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Man-Made
- How the bias of the past is being built into the future
- By: Tracey Spicer
- Narrated by: Tracey Spicer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism through the lens of artificial intelligence. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. Winner, 2023 Australian...
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So eye opening - a must read for everyone in tech
- By YnotSL on 01-01-2025
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Man-Made
- How the bias of the past is being built into the future
- Narrated by: Tracey Spicer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2023
- Language: English
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Truth Is Trouble
- The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated
- By: Malcolm Knox
- Narrated by: Laurence Brewer
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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From the marriage equality debate to the COVID-19 lockdown, ‘free speech’ has become the new battleground in Australian society. What does the furore over one footballer’s social media postings reveal about how it got that way? For a period in 2019, a tweet from rugby player Israel Folau...
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2hrs in
- By Anonymous on 02-11-2020
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Truth Is Trouble
- The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated
- Narrated by: Laurence Brewer
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 01-11-2020
- Language: English
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Generation F
- Why we still struggle with sex and power
- By: Virginia Trioli
- Narrated by: Virginia Trioli
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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‘For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.’ Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power. The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of...
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enlightening reaz
- By Lina on 08-08-2022
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Generation F
- Why we still struggle with sex and power
- Narrated by: Virginia Trioli
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-11-2019
- Language: English
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Chasing Wrongs and Rights
- A personal journey of fighting for justice around the world
- By: Elaine Pearson
- Narrated by: Elaine Pearson
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
The Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights – from human trafficking in Nepal to the 'drug war' in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia – offering an extremely involving personal account of how far...
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Lots to think about in this great book
- By Anonymous on 04-11-2022
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Chasing Wrongs and Rights
- A personal journey of fighting for justice around the world
- Narrated by: Elaine Pearson
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 06-09-2022
- Language: English
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Angertainment
- How social media outrage ruined everything
- By: Ed Coper
- Narrated by: Ed Coper
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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We were promised a global village; we got a gladiatorial arena. Social media is no longer a tool for connection but a viral outrage machine that harvests and monetises our worst impulses. As a result, we are being driven apart: politics is becoming more extreme, young women are following...
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Angertainment
- How social media outrage ruined everything
- Narrated by: Ed Coper
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2026
- Language: English
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Buddhism for Meat Eaters
- Simple wisdom for a kinder world
- By: Josephine Moon
- Narrated by: Kate Blakk
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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For many years Josephine Moon struggled with the question of eating meat, fervently wishing to live as a vegetarian yet requiring meat in her diet. From Josephine’s philosophical, spiritual and physical battle with eating meat came, Buddhism for Meat Eaters – a book for animal lovers, the...
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Great book
- By Dana Orth on 03-07-2019
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Buddhism for Meat Eaters
- Simple wisdom for a kinder world
- Narrated by: Kate Blakk
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2019
- Language: English
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