Black Inc imprint: 229 books
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...
Credlin & Co.
How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Credlin was Abbott’s enforcer, his disciplinarian, his counsellor, his brain, his mother. Her strength as a chief of staff was a sign of his weakness as a prime minister: she gave him the option of disengaging. Credlin allowed Abbott to be who he wanted to be: the good bloke, the philosopher, the weekend...
Stop at Nothing
The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
In Stop at Nothing Annabel Crabb brings all her wit and perceptiveness to the story of Malcolm Turnbull. This is a memorable look at the Prime Minister in action – his flaws and achievements – as well as his past lives and adventures. Drawing on extensive interviews with Turnbull, Crabb delves into...
The Mad Marathon
The Story of the 2013 Election
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
With the 2013 race for the Lodge now run and won, who better than Mungo MacCallum to make sense of it all? With wit and insight, Mungo documents the ups and downs of this longest of campaigns. He dissects Labor's self-destructive leadership war, the Coalition's cheap and nasty Broadband Lite, and the...
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...
Takeover
Foreign Investment and the Australian Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Did the Chiko Roll change Australian history?
As a matter of fact, yes. Efforts by the reviled US company IT&T to take over the company making the Roll in the early 1970s marked a turning point in Australian foreign investment policy. And this is just one of the strange twists and turns...
Too Much Luck
The Mining Boom and Australia’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
We think we are the lucky country, but what we really have is dumb luck – too much luck, more than we know what to do with. In Too Much Luck, Paul Cleary shows how the resource boom, which seems a blessing, could well become a curse. We have never seen a boom quite like this one. Under-taxed and...
Mine-Field
The Dark Side of Australia's Resources Rush
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
It is not a case of governments and companies putting royalties and profits before people; instead it is as though people don’t matter at all …
In Mine-Field, Paul Cleary counts the true cost of Australia’s mineral addiction.
Whether it be coal-seam gas, LNG or coal mega-mines,...
True Girt
The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
**First there was Girt. Now comes ...
True Girt**
In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt transports us to the Australian frontier.
This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous...
Bearbrass
Imagining Early Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Just a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck's, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called Equitable Place. Here you'll find a number of places to eat and drink. Settle yourself in the window of one, shut your eyes, and picture this scene of yore …
In this much-loved book,...
by Brendan Gullifer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
When was the first Melbourne cup, and which horse won? Who was the first woman to stand for federal parliament? What’s the second verse of ‘Advance Australia Fair’? And why was Vegemite renamed Parwill in 1928? Here, in one handy reference, are the dates and deeds, the heroes and villains, the...
by Alice Pung
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Winner, 2011 Western Australian Book Awards
At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her...
The Skull
Informers, Hit Men and Australia’s Toughest Cop
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian “Skull” Murphy. Bestselling author Adam Shand tells the story of the last of the super cops. Through dramatic recreations, The Skull follows Brian Murphy on the beat as he collars big-time crims and small-time thugs,...
by John Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable—and dull.
From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's...