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Why back pain treatments aren’t working and the new science offering hope.Credit: Booktopia
Back Up by Liam Mannix
The chances are that everyone has had it, haven’t they? Back pain, that is. But Liam Mannix, the science reporter for this masthead, reckons the world has got the treatment of bad backs and the way we think about them all wrong. He’s not alone, of course. Many scientists “believe back pain is one of the greatest problems in world health today. And it is one almost entirely of our own creation.” Here, Mannix exposes the old ways of treatment and looks at new ideas about pain and the crucial connection between the brain and the back.
The explosive inside story of the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial.Credit: Booktopia
Crossing the Line by Nick McKenzie
An explosive exposé and testament to the power of investigative journalism.
In mid-2017, whispers from Australia’s most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal shocking information about Australia’s most famous and revered SAS soldier but plunge the two reporters into the defamation trial of the century. An enthralling and meticulously researched book, Crossing the Line tells the untold story of how a small group of brave soldiers and two determined reporters exposed one of the greatest military scandals in Australian history.
For inquisitive people who like to understand how things came to be the way they are.Credit: Booktopia
Explain That by Felicity Lewis
Explain That answers some of the year’s – and life’s – most baffling questions. Thoroughly researched and eloquently set out by some of Australia’s finest journalists, it provides nourishment for curious minds and fun facts to share with friends and family. What do sharks want (and why do they bite)? How do you win an Oscar? Who thought up table manners? Funny, weird and insightful topics are inventively illustrated and embellished with diagrams, pictures and factoids.
The behind-the-scenes story of the mighty rise and shocking fall of Gladys Berejiklian.Credit: Booktopia
The Secret by Alexandra Smith
Gladys Berejiklian was Australia’s rockstar premier. The first woman to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with grace and a steady hand. To many Australians, she was ‘The Woman Who Saved Australia’ for the way in which she navigated the first wave of COVID, with a sterling reputation as a dedicated and reliable public servant. But for all of her premiership, and well before, Berejiklian was harbouring a secret that she kept from her friends, family, colleagues and constituents.
The most liveable city to the most locked down.Credit: Booktopia
Lockdown by Chip Le Grand
How does a city go from being the world’s most liveable to its most locked down? For 262 days, Melbourne was cocooned by stay-at-home orders. Businesses were forcibly closed, classrooms shuttered, and community and social life relegated to an impersonal online world. To stop the spread of a virus, people were prevented from saying goodbye to dying loved ones, children were separated from their parents, and playground equipment was taped off like a crime scene. Through successive COVID winters, the state of Victoria was isolated from the rest of the federation and Melbourne from the rest of the state.
The revealing biography of Australia’s most powerful premier.Credit: Booktopia
Daniel Andrews by Sumeyya Ilanbey
He is the most significant Labor figure in Australia since Paul Keating, and the most dominant Victorian premier since Jeff Kennett. He combines Labor’s progressive streak with its conservative edge, implementing an infrastructure program and social reforms of a scale unseen in the state since the era of John Cain. At a time when state leaders have reversed the long drift of political power towards Canberra, Daniel Andrews is the most successful among them. This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the breathtaking ruthlessness and masterful control of communications that underpin his leadership.
A startling investigation of how some of Australia’s best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years.Credit: Booktopia
Hard Labour by Ben Schneiders
Whether it’s at McDonald’s, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic. Billions of dollars have been unlawfully taken from workers at countless businesses, large and small. Hard Labour is an examination of why this has occurred and what it says about inequality and power in twenty-first century Australia. It tells the stories of individual workers, temporary migrants, and those without influence and connections. It also describes how many businesses - whether owned by private equity or wealthy families, or operating through tax havens or on the stock exchange - have structured themselves to avoid paying minimum wages.
Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise.Credit: Booktopia
Bulldozed by Niki Savva
Between 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison. For nine long years, Australia was governed by a succession of Coalition governments rocked by instability and bloodletting, and consumed with prosecuting climate and culture wars while neglecting policy. By the end, among his detractors - and there were plenty - Morrison was seen as the worst prime minister since Billy McMahon. Worse even than Tony Abbott, who lasted a scant two years in the job, whose main legacy was that he destroyed Julia Gillard, then himself, and then Turnbull. Morrison thought reform was a vanity project. He said he never wanted to leave a legacy. He got his wish
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