Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
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...
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...
Quarterly Essay 61 Balancing Act
Australia Between Recession and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession.
In this urgent essay, George...
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...
Quarterly Essay 10 Bad Company
The Cult of the CEO
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
In Bad Company Gideon Haigh scrutinises the way we have turned CEOs into tin gods. Is moral outrage the appropriate response to the collapses of Enron or HIH or are we all implicated in a crazy system? Haigh argues that the attempt to create great entrepreneurs of the new caste of CEOs by giving them...
A-League
The Inside Story of the Tumultuous First Decade
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
In November 2004, shopping centre billionaire Frank Lowy walked into a packed media conference and announced the creation of a new professional football league. Armed with $15 million of government funds, Lowy was about to wake the sleeping giant of Australian sport. The A-League kicked off in 2005....
Quarterly Essay 54 Dragon's Tail
The Lucky Country After the China Boom
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
In Dragon’s Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia’s future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts. China’s rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring 100 times more quickly and on a scale 1000 times larger...
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...
Kattertonia
The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Katter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
What's going on under that hat? In these pages we life the brim and uncover the words of a true-blue Aussie who shoots from the hip. Bob Katter doesn't hold back when it comes to himself: 'There is a rage in my soul, a hatred in my soul.' Far-north Queensland: 'It is a magic land and we could support...