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Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
34.99 AUD
Category: History
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
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
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: Business Finance Management
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: Australian Studies
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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