Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
Inside the Greens
The Origins and Future of the Party, the People and the Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2019
A penetrating examination of the history and future of the Australian Greens
The re-election of a Coalition government, after a lost decade of policy backflips and leadership volatility, has redrawn the political landscape. With a record quarter of voters abandoning the major parties at the...
King of the Air
The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
A revealing portrait of a brilliant and troubled figure – a daredevil of the skies
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages: the first trans-Pacific flight from America...
Their Brilliant Careers
The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Absurd, original and highly addictive . . .
In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret...
by Karen Hitchcock
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. “Nothing,” he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: “I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I’m addicted...
by Craig Sherborne
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
‘Originality may not be everything in poetry, but it's hard enough to find at any moment in literary history. Necessary Evil is a consummate book, and of an instantly insistent originality. With it Sherborne goes to the top of Australian poetry - nobody is writing better.’— Peter Porter Necessary...
Eyewitness
Australians Write from the Front-Line
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In Eyewitness, Garrie Hutchinson has selected the cream of writing from Australia's wars. Many of our finest writer-reporters are featured - C.E.W. Bean, Alan Moorehead, Paul McGeough, Kenneth Slessor, Ray Parkin, Osmar White, John Martinkus, Peter Ryan and more. The settings range from the beach at...
A Rightful Place
A Road Map to Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia’s original peoples?
Soon we will all decide if and how Indigenous Australians will be recognised in the Constitution. In this essential book, several leading writers and thinkers...
Hugh Stretton
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
A public intellectual known for his deeply humane approach to social and urban issues, Hugh Stretton’s thinking has influenced Australian public debates for many decades. Fundamentally, Stretton wanted to make Australia fairer.
His book The Political Sciences was hailed by the Times Literary...
The Healing Party
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Estranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin when her sister calls with bad news. Their mother is ill, and has only a few months to live. Confused and conflicted, Natasha returns to the home she fled many years before. But her father, an evangelical Christian, has not...
Dead Right
How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
An updated and expanded edition of the bestselling Quarterly Essay
How did the banks run wild for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial?
In Dead Right, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism...
AFA2 Trump in Asia
The New World Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
‘We’ve hidden behind a hope that American power and resolve will again prevail. Trump tears away any excuse for wishful thinking.’ MICHAEL WESLEY
The second issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the United States’ sudden shift from the Asia Pivot to America First. It provides...
AFA4 Defending Australia
Australian Foreign Affairs; Issue 4
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
“Whether we like it or not, the challenge of defending Australia will become much harder in the twenty-first century. We are no longer a strategic backwater.” MICHAEL WESLEY
The fourth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the challenge of defending Australia at a time of regional...
AFA5 Are We Asian Yet?
History vs Geography
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
“One of Australia’s defining characteristics is the belief that the nation is headed for an Asian future. Destiny allows little room for choice.” DAVID WALKER
The fifth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia’s struggle to define its place in Asia as it balances its historic...
AFA6 Our Sphere of Influence
Rivalry in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
“The uncomfortable reality is that preserving an exclusive sphere of influence in the South Pacific is not going to be possible against a regional power that is far stronger than any we have ever confronted, or even contemplated.” HUGH WHITE
The sixth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs...