The Broken Estate - Journalism and democracy in a post-truth world (BWB Texts) by Mel Bunce
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
"It is easy to look at the extremity of `post truth' politics in the US and conclude that we must be doing something ok in New Zealand. But in many ways, the foundations of our media system are in worse shape." In the age of Trump, fake news and celebrity headlines, it is easy to despair about the futur ...Show more
Who Killed Scott Guy? The Case That Gripped a Nation by Mike White
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Scott Guy was a good man, a great dad, a salt-of-the-earth farmer who was gunned down at his front gate for no conceivable reason. His death enthralled us, partly because it was so inexplicable, but also because there were no obvious suspects. When police finally arrested someone, public fascination soa ...Show more
Twenty Good Summers: Work Less, Live More and Make the Most of Your Money - Fully Updated and Revised Edition by Martin Hawes
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
A personal finance guide for baby boomers to create income for a good semi-retirement. When financial expert Martin Hawes turned 50 he realised there were many more mountains he wanted to climb, but he wasn't getting any younger! So, he thought, he had to make the next twenty summers really count. Eigh ...Show more
Inequality - A New Zealand Crisis by Max Rashbrooke (editor)
$39.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A staggering rise in wealth disparity has transformed New Zealand from one of the developed world’s most equal nations to one of the most unequal. Inequality is one of the most powerful forces shaping New Zealand: it harms the lives of thousands and, the evidence suggests, makes us all worse off. Intern ...Show more
Murder That Wasn't: The Case of George Gwaze by Felicity Goodyear-Smith
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Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
This book tells the story of the case of George Gwaze, twice charged and twice acquitted of the rape and murder of his ten-year-old adopted niece, Charlene Makaza. When Charlene is found unconscious one morning, gasping for breath, with a high fever and lying in a pool of diarrhoea, her family rush her ...Show more
Policy Making Under Pressure: Rethinking the Policy Process in Aotearoa New Zealand: 2021 by Sonia Mazey Jeremy Richardson
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Public policy-making in Aotearoa New Zealand has a patchy track record. In many policy sectors New Zealand performs no worse than other advanced democracies, and in some it is recognised as world leading. But it is clear that the system is under pressure, confronted with an endless conveyor belt of prob ...Show more
The Politically Correct Economy by Greg Clydesdale
$34.95 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Over the last thirty years, political correctness has infiltrated every aspect of our lives. It is not just annoying - it has undermined economic growth and the welfare of many New Zealanders. The process has been so gradual and consistent that many New Zealanders have not notices how previously unpopul ...Show more
Eye on Politics by Nick Lindo
$24.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs
Nick Lindo's collection of about ninety-five of his most recent articles from the six hundred or so he has written for the Ashburton Guardian over the last fourteen years. They vary from the whimsical to the almost acerbic with a variety of opinions in between. It is not a propaganda volume for any p ...Show more
The High Road: A Journey to the New Frontier of Cannabis by Colin Hogg
$36.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: Very Good
Unsettled by the stiff old rules at home, writer Colin Hogg and his faithful driver Bruce hit the high road in America on an exploration of a wild new world where cannabis is free and easy. Like going on a road trip with Bill Bryson driving and Hunter S Thompson riding shot-gun, Colin Hogg embarks on a ...Show more
Tax and Fairness by Deborah Russell
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
The world has changed a lot in the last thirty years, but New Zealand's tax system hasn't. Since the 1980s New Zealand's taxation policy has remained the same, despite substantial economic and social changes. The system may be familiar, but is it fair?Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher's lively analysis ...Show more
A Matter of Fact: Talking Truth in a Post-Truth World (BWB Texts) by Jess Berentson-Shaw
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
We may be in the golden age of information, with access to more facts than ever before. Yet in the time of fake news and post-truth politics, it seems that conspiracy and rumour spread faster than ever and are even harder to debunk. Battling over facts can be exhausting and polarising. For those committ ...Show more
The Post-Snowden Era: Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand by Kathleen Kuehn
$14.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: Very Good
Only sustained public pressure can prevent the complicit submission and cultural amnesia that seems to follow every new revelation about surveillance in everyday life. Recent revelations about the nature and extent of global surveillance programmes have shocked many. But what are their implications in t ...Show more