Best books about Australian politics

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Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM
Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM 4.29 avg rating — 472 ratings
2.
The End of Certainty: Power, Politics & Business in Australia
The End of Certainty: Power, Politics & Business in Australia 4.33 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Longest Decade
The Longest Decade 4.14 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Born to Rule: The unauthorised biography of Malcolm Turnbull
Born to Rule: The unauthorised biography of Malcolm Turnbull 3.92 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Australian Moment
The Australian Moment 4.24 avg rating — 397 ratings
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The Latham Diaries
The Latham Diaries 3.49 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia
The March of Patriots: The Struggle for Modern Australia 4.08 avg rating — 63 ratings
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A Certain Grandeur
A Certain Grandeur 4.18 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes our World
Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes our World 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
10.
The Party Thieves
The Party Thieves 3.66 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy
Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy 3.34 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution
Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution 3.84 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Dismissal: Australia's Most Sensational Power Struggle: The Dramatic Fall of Gough Whitlam
The Dismissal: Australia's Most Sensational Power Struggle: The Dramatic Fall of Gough Whitlam really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings
14.
Battlelines
Battlelines 2.74 avg rating — 89 ratings
15.
After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches 4.14 avg rating — 72 ratings
15.
Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power
Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power 4.11 avg rating — 92 ratings
17.
Political Animal
Political Animal 3.97 avg rating — 353 ratings
18.
Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation
Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation 3.94 avg rating — 143 ratings
19.
Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942
Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942 4.21 avg rating — 137 ratings
20.
Hawke: The Prime Minister
Hawke: The Prime Minister 3.49 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes its Mind
Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes its Mind 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Professionals: Strategy, Money and the Rise of the Political Campaigner in Australia
The Professionals: Strategy, Money and the Rise of the Political Campaigner in Australia 3.81 avg rating — 31 ratings
23.
Whatever It Takes
Whatever It Takes 3.63 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Whitlam Government 1972-1975
The Whitlam Government 1972-1975 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
25.
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy 4.08 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
25.
Politics with Purpose: Occasional Observations on Public and Private Life
Politics with Purpose: Occasional Observations on Public and Private Life 3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
25.
Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia
Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia 3.94 avg rating — 182 ratings
28.
Punch and Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010
Punch and Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
28.
Robert Menzies' Forgotten People
Robert Menzies' Forgotten People 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings
30.
Dangerous Allies
Dangerous Allies 3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings
30.
Political Economy Now! The struggle for alternative economics at the University of Sydney
Political Economy Now! The struggle for alternative economics at the University of Sydney 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
30.
Rudd V. Abbott
Rudd V. Abbott 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Betrayal: The Underbelly of Australian Labor
Betrayal: The Underbelly of Australian Labor 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
34.
A Question of Leadership: Paul Keating : Political Fighter
A Question of Leadership: Paul Keating : Political Fighter 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Power at Work. Federation Press. 2005.
Power at Work. Federation Press. 2005. 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers 3.83 avg rating — 522 ratings
37.
Advancing Australia: The Speeches of Paul Keating, Prime Minister
Advancing Australia: The Speeches of Paul Keating, Prime Minister 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
37.
Tales from the Political Trenches
Tales from the Political Trenches 3.23 avg rating — 88 ratings
37.
The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom
The Australian Disease: On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 316 ratings
40.
Speechless: A Year In My Father's Business
Speechless: A Year In My Father's Business 3.80 avg rating — 178 ratings
41.
The Long, Slow Death of White Australia
The Long, Slow Death of White Australia 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
41.
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future (Quarterly Essay #49)
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future (Quarterly Essay #49) 3.16 avg rating — 81 ratings
43.
From Carr to Keneally: Labor in Office in NSW 1995–2011
From Carr to Keneally: Labor in Office in NSW 1995–2011 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
43.
The Hawke memoirs
The Hawke memoirs 3.44 avg rating — 72 ratings
43.
Politixworks
Politixworks 4.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
43.
The Good, the Bad & the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers
The Good, the Bad & the Unlikely: Australia's Prime Ministers 3.83 avg rating — 522 ratings
43.
The Permit
The Permit 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
43.
White Spirit
White Spirit 4.41 avg rating — 388 ratings
43.
The Great Labor Schism: A Retrospective
The Great Labor Schism: A Retrospective 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
43.
The Fatal Shore
The Fatal Shore 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
43.
Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life
Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life 3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings
43.
On Fairness
On Fairness 4.11 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd (Quarterly Essay #38)
Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd (Quarterly Essay #38) 3.88 avg rating — 139 ratings
53.
November 1975: The Inside Story of Australia's Greatest Political Crisis
November 1975: The Inside Story of Australia's Greatest Political Crisis 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
53.
The Case for Courage
The Case for Courage 4.24 avg rating — 190 ratings
56.
The Light On The Hill: The Australian Labor Party, 1891-1991
The Light On The Hill: The Australian Labor Party, 1891-1991 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
56.
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party 3.77 avg rating — 81 ratings
56.
John Winston Howard: The Biography
John Winston Howard: The Biography 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
56.
The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia
The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia 3.93 avg rating — 69 ratings
60.
The Australian Voter: 50 Years of Change
The Australian Voter: 50 Years of Change 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
60.
The Costello Memoirs
The Costello Memoirs 3.29 avg rating — 103 ratings
60.
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society 3.84 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Australian Prime Ministers
Australian Prime Ministers 3.93 avg rating — 74 ratings
63.
Mates: Five Champions of the Labor Right
Mates: Five Champions of the Labor Right 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
63.
The Carbon Club
The Carbon Club 4.32 avg rating — 270 ratings
66.
The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition 1875-1914
The People's Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition 1875-1914 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
66.
Upturn: A better normal after COVID-19
Upturn: A better normal after COVID-19 4.22 avg rating — 144 ratings
68.
Joseph Lyons (Prime ministers series)
Joseph Lyons (Prime ministers series) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
68.
Governomics: Can We Afford Small Government?
Governomics: Can We Afford Small Government? 4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings
70.
Margaret Whitlam A Biography
Margaret Whitlam A Biography really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
70.
The Hawke years: The story from the inside
The Hawke years: The story from the inside 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
70.
Inside the Greens: The Origins and Future of the Party, the People and the Politics
Inside the Greens: The Origins and Future of the Party, the People and the Politics 4.13 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The ALP: A short history of the Australian Labor Party
The ALP: A short history of the Australian Labor Party 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
75.
Whitlam
Whitlam 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Lucky Culture And The Rise Of An Australian Ruling Class
The Lucky Culture And The Rise Of An Australian Ruling Class 2.94 avg rating — 64 ratings
75.
Suffrage to sufferance: A hundred years of women in politics
Suffrage to sufferance: A hundred years of women in politics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
78.
Abiding Interests: Memoirs
Abiding Interests: Memoirs 3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
78.
Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard
Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
78.
Crash through or crash: The unmaking of a prime minister
Crash through or crash: The unmaking of a prime minister really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
81.
31 DAYS TO POWER - Hawke's Victory
31 DAYS TO POWER - Hawke's Victory liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs 3.93 avg rating — 44 ratings
82.
The Australian Labor Movement 1850 - 1907: Historical documents
The Australian Labor Movement 1850 - 1907: Historical documents really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
84.
We, the people: Australian republican government
We, the people: Australian republican government liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
85.
John Curtin: A Biography
John Curtin: A Biography 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
85.
State of the Nation: Essays for Robert Manne
State of the Nation: Essays for Robert Manne really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
85.
The Truth of the Matter
The Truth of the Matter 3.86 avg rating — 74 ratings
88.
Mungo's Canberra
Mungo's Canberra really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
88.
Future Proofing Australia: The Right Answers for Our Future
Future Proofing Australia: The Right Answers for Our Future 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
90.
Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election
Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
91.
One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union, 1886–1994
One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union, 1886–1994 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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People Power: The History and Future of the Referendum in Australia
People Power: The History and Future of the Referendum in Australia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
93.
Unions in a Contrary World: The Future of the Australian Trade Union Movement
Unions in a Contrary World: The Future of the Australian Trade Union Movement 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Left Turn
Left Turn 3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings
95.
Father of the House
Father of the House 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away
The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away 3.91 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Great Crash: The Short Life and Sudden Death of the Whitlam Government
The Great Crash: The Short Life and Sudden Death of the Whitlam Government 1.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Beazley
Beazley 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government
The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government 3.64 avg rating — 1,526 ratings
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Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power (Quarterly Essay #59)
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power (Quarterly Essay #59) 3.55 avg rating — 300 ratings
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