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Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania and its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans ...Show more
Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Crown Casino, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten’s Allied Medical Group, 7 Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…Award-winning author Quentin Beresford has dissected the rise and fall of the Gunns logging company and analysed the proposed Adani mine and our greatest river sy ...Show more
Wounded Country: The Murray–Darling Basin: A Contested History by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
The Murray–Darling Basin, Australia’s food bowl, is in crisis. For more than a century, the Basin has faced a series of environmental catastrophes: soil erosion, sand drifts and dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, the threat to native flora and fauna and the drying out of internationally recognised wet ...Show more
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