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  • Going Digital

    The Transformation of the ABC

    by Margaret Simons ...
    How Australia's public broadcaster reinvented itself for the digital ageToday, the ABC offers things that were unimaginable twenty years ago: twenty-four-hour news coverage, an entire app of kids' content, countless podcasts and on-demand TV shows. Before smartphones, broadband and Bluey, all this would have sounded impossible.Going Digital tells the tumultuous story of how the ABC transformed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Tanya Plibersek

    On Her Own Terms

    by Margaret Simons ...
    A fascinating portrait of one of Australia’s most influential womenElected to federal parliament aged just twenty-eight, Tanya Plibersek has lived almost half her life in the public eye, and is the longest-serving woman in Australia’s House of Representatives. But how much do we know about what drives her, what she values, and what we can expect from her next?Plibersek was born in Sydney to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Penny Wong

    Passion and Principle

    by Margaret Simons ...
    An updated and extended edition of the bestselling biography of one of the most talented, poised and respected Australian politicians‘What Simons has excavated from the background of this extraordinary Australian should be cause for great pride and celebration.’ —Mandy Sayer, The Weekend AustralianSenator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cry Me a River

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

    by Margaret Simons ...
    Series Book 77 - Quarterly Essay
    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

    $6.99 USD

  • Six Square Metres

    reflections from a small garden

    by Margaret Simons ...
    Life lessons from the ground up.Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get lucky, or unlucky. All these things are true of life, as of gardening.In this thoughtful and beautifully observed book, journalist and gardening enthusiast Margaret Simons takes readers on a journey through the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Content Makers

    Understanding the media in Australia

    by Margaret Simons ...
    In The Content Makers Margaret Simons explains the changes taking place in the Australian media. She analyses audiences, our major media organisations, the role of government – and the implications of all of these for our society and our democracy.Her examination leads her to the conclusion that the challenges facing the content providers in the modern world are part of a broader striving, a very ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man

    Self-Made Man

    by Margaret Simons ...
    Kerry Stokes: Self-Made Man is the real, fascinating story behind the rabbits-to-riches ascendancy of one of Australia's most powerful men.Plucked from an orphanage as an infant, Kerry Stokes grew up in the slums and streets of post-Depression Melbourne with his itinerant, adoptive parents. As a boy he trapped, skinned and sold rabbits to make ends meet, and seemed destined to a life of hardship ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Kat's Cradle

    by Margaret Simmons ...
    Out of the blue, Ex-CIA agent Kat McWilliams receives news that DNA from her kidnapped child has turned up at the murder scene of a high-valued government informant ¬¬ 16 years after the girl disappeared.Astounded by the news, Kat’s joy is short-lived. She soon learns that her daughter ¬ is being sought as one of the suspects in the slaying.Leveraging former government contacts, Kat shadows ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Malcolm Fraser

    The Political Memoirs

    by Margaret Simons ...
    In this part memoir and part authorised biography, Malcolm Fraser talks about his time in public life.'The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.'—Malcolm FraserMalcolm Fraser is one of the most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia's Prime ... Read more

    $21.66 USD

  • Audiobook

    Latham's World

    The New Politics of the Outsiders

    by Margaret Simons ...
    Narrated by Marie-Louise Walker ...
    Series Audiobook 15 - Quarterly Essay

    Unabridged

    3 hours 55 min

    In the third Quarterly Essay of 2004, Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at Mark Latham, the self-proclaimed "club buster" and the man who would be prime minister. Few doubt Latham's intelligence and ambition, but what will this amount to in government? Simons argues that if Labor is elected, it will not be "business as usual". Rather we can expect a reformist government in the spirit - if not ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Beauvoir and The Second Sex

    Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism

    by Margaret A. Simons ...
    In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoir's wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy in her handwritten diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 15 Latham's World

    The New Politics of the Outsiders

    by Margaret Simons ...
    Series Book 15 - Quarterly Essay
    In the third Quarterly Essay of 2004, Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at Mark Latham, the self-proclaimed "club buster" and the man who would be prime minister. Few doubt Latham's intelligence and ambition, but what will this amount to in government? Simons argues that if Labor is elected, it will not be "business as usual". Rather we can expect a reformist government in the spirit - if not ... Read more

    $8.99 USD