Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
Up from the Mission
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Up from the Mission charts the life and thought of Noel Pearson, from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia’s most influential figures. This is writing of great passion and power, which introduces a fascinating man and a compelling writer. Many of the pieces...
Axis of Deceit
The Extraordinary Story of an Australian Whistleblower
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines after winning the seat of Denison, and with it a key role in deciding who would form the next government of Australia. Before he was a politician, however, Wilkie was Australia’s most talked-about whistleblower.
In...
Not Dead Yet
What Future for Labor?
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Labor is not dead yet, but it desperately needs to change. In this book, Mark Latham and several leading young progressive thinkers look to the future. Not Dead Yet shows how Labor became a party of factional warlords. Latham proposes reforms to limit their power and renew the party, and outlines...
Quarterly Essay 21 What's Left?
The Death of Social Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
In What's Left, Clive Hamilton throws out a challenge to Australia's party of social democracy – to both its true believers and right-wing machine men. Will it be business-as-usual and creeping atrophy, or will the Labor Party find a new way of talking to individualistic, affluent Australia?
According...
A Short History of Richard Kline
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
I woke with a gasp. And lay in the dark, open-mouthed, holding my breath. That feeling . . . that feeling was indescribable. For a moment I had felt as if I were falling . . . falling into bliss.
All his life, Richard Kline has been haunted by a sense that something is lacking. He envies the...
Great Expectations
Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
"Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In this brilliant short book – an expanded version of her acclaimed Quarterly Essay – Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations...
by Mark Aarons
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
In early 1965 at age thirteen, Mark Aarons came under the “adverse notice” of ASIO, which opened volume one of his nine-volume security file. Mark was following in the footsteps of his father, Laurie Aarons, whose 85-volume file commenced in the early 1930s when he was fourteen. For four generations...
My Year Without Matches
Escaping the City in Search of the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In the tradition of Wild and Tracks, one woman’s story of how she left the city and found her soul.
Disillusioned and burnt out by her job, Claire Dunn quits a comfortable life to spend a year off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Her new forest home swings between ally and enemy...
Dear Life
On Caring for the Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society. Through some unforgettable case studies, she shows what care for the elderly and dying is really like – both the good and the bad. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions and over-treatment,...
Breakfast, School Run, Chemo
The Sometimes Funny, Definitely Not Depressing, True Story of a Mum With Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
I have cancer, but it's not who I am.
Mother of four girls Julia Watson thought her world was falling apart when she found out she had terminal cancer. But with humour and courage, Julia faces the greatest challenge of her life – and in the process becomes the person she'd always wanted to...
How to be Great
From Cleopatra to Churchill – Lessons from History's Greatest Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
What can we learn from the great leaders of the past? In this unique and engaging volume, James Adonis, one of Australia’s best-known leadership educators, shows how we can apply the lessons of history to the challenges of the present. Drawing on examples from Walt Disney to Joan of Arc, Adonis explores...
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...
Crimwife
An Insider’s Account of Love Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
It’s so sad,” she told me, “because you could have been something. You could have gotten to the top. You’re smart enough. But now you’re going to end up as just another dirty, scummy, rotten crimwife.
How far would you go for love? Some women commit crimes to help their lovers, while...
Deep Time Dreaming
Uncovering Ancient Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds may have pointed the way. But the first Australians were voyaging into the unknown.
Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first...