Black Inc Redback imprint: 14 books
Battlers and Billionaires
The Story of Inequality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?
In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best.
From egalitarian...
Dog Days
Australia After the Boom
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A blueprint for the nation after the boom.
Australians have just lived through a period of exceptional prosperity, but, says influential economist Ross Garnaut, the Dog Days are on their way. Are we ready for the challenges ahead?
In Dog Days, Garnaut explains how we got here, what...
Supermarket Monsters
The Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Down, down …
In hardware, petrol, general merchandise and liquor, and above all in groceries, Coles and Woolworths jointly rule Australia’s retail landscape. On average, every man, woman and child in this country spends $100 a week across their many outlets.
What does such dominance...
Losing Streak
How Tasmania was Gamed by the Gambling Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A jaw-dropping account of how one company came to own every poker machine in the state of Tasmania – and the cost to democracy, the public purse and problem gamblers and their families.
The story begins with the toppling of a premier, and ends with David Walsh, the man behind MONA, taking...
Econobabble
How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Economics is like a tyre lever: it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head …
What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when public figures and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the...
Generation Less
How Australia is Cheating the Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
A country that makes no room for the young is a country that will forfeit a fair future. This must not become Australia.
Today’s young Australians are the first generation since the Great Depression to be worse off than their parents. And so, just as we have seen the gap between rich and...
An Economy is Not a Society
Winners and Losers in the New Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?
If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia’s economic growth over...
Blue Collar Frayed
Working Men in Tomorrow’s Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
‘I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us, the query that hurt my head and heart as his baggy eyes held mine: where does someone like me fit, now?’
Jennifer Rayner knows a thing or two about blue-collar blokes: her brother,...
Crossing the Line
Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.
With explosive new research and access to never-before- seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia’s secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments....
Anzac's Long Shadow
The Cost of Our National Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It’s right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven’t we learned about war, and what...
Crime & Punishment
Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
If the goal of our justice system is to reduce crime and create a safer society, then we must do better.
According to conventional wisdom, severely punishing offenders reduces the likelihood that they’ll offend again. Why, then, do so many who go to prison continue to commit crimes after...
by Eric Knight
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
A new perspective on a diabolical problem.
Climate change, one of the most polarising issues of our time, has reached a political deadlock in the battle of sceptics and believers. But it doesn't have to be that way. In Why We Argue about Climate Change, Eric Knight unpicks the misconceptions...
Changing Jobs
The Fair Go in the New Machine Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
An essential guide to the future of work in Australia.
For many Australians, rapid progress in artificial intelligence, robotics and automation is a growing anxiety. What will it mean for jobs? What will it mean for their kids’ futures? More broadly, what will it mean for equality in this...
This Time
Australia's Republican Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
To propose an Australian should be our head of state doesn’t seem revolutionary. ‘Isn’t that already the case?” some may even ask. Flip a coin and you’ll have your answer.
In This Time, Benjamin T. Jones charts a path to an independent future. He reveals the fascinating early history...