Welcome to our weekly segment where we break down the bestsellers for the last week on Booktopia, Australia’s local bookstore! Read more

What the hell has happened to politics in Australia? Never before have I felt so repulsed by the goings-on in our various parliaments. The last few years have left me feeling completely disenfranchised. I am certain good work has been done in that time, but how would I know? The coverage of politics has been less about the ideas being debated and more about the personalities debating them. Corr... Read more

When former Prime Minister John Howard visited Booktopia, John Purcell took the chance to ask him the hard questions in a rare and candid interview. The Johns discuss Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech, his role in the rise of Tony Abbott, the controversial WorkChoices legislation, as well as his views on his Prime Ministerial predecessor Paul Keating and the future of Australian education. ... Read more