Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America (Quarterly Essay #86)
By: Hugh White
4.14
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
In this gripping essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back America to the hilt …
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3.86
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3.14
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3.36
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By: Thomas Keneally
3.21
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3.71
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4.13
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4.25
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4.22
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4.21
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4.20
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3.98
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3.94
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4.10
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3.59
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3.85
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3.32
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21. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech
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4.28
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22. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
4.36
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4.41
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4.37
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4.27
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A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more
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27. Just Ignore Him
By: Alan Davies
4.36
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"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
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28. My Body Keeps Your Secrets
By: Lucia Osborne-Crowley
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29. The Queen Is Dead
By: Stan Grant
4.32
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30. Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America (Quarterly Essay #86)
By: Hugh White
4.14
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
In this gripping essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back America to the hilt … read more
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31. Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty
By: Andrew Fowler
4.31
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
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