Quarterly Essay
Quarterly Essay 32: On The US Election: American Revolution
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Where were you when America elected Barack Obama? Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time: “the run-up to the election … a time when every day felt like a year and we became ... More »
Quarterly Essay 31: Now Or Never: A Sustainable Future For Australia?
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Professor Tim Flannery investigates the latest climate science and the challenges facing Australia and the world. He looks at what the Rudd government needs to do if the nation is to play its part in averting a global ca... More »
Quarterly Essay 30: Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention.
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In June it will be a year since the Northern Territory intervention was announced. In Quarterly Essay 30, Paul Toohey offers a definitive account of how it came about and what it has achieved. In this riveting piece of r... More »
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Quarterly Essay 29: Love And Money
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In Love & Money Anne Manne looks at the challenge of balancing love and economics, and the value our society places on both. Examining how paid work has become “sacred” for many, she argues that any true definition o... More »
Quarterly Essay 28: Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard
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In 'Exit Right', Judith Brett explains why the tide turned on John Howard. This is an essay about leadership, in particular Howard’s style of strong leadership which led him to dominate his party with such ultimately cat... More »
Quarterly Essay 27: A Nuclear Future
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Guest review Something strange happened last year. The debate over nuclear power, which many thought was buried with a stake through its heart, rose and walked again. In Australia it was raised by John Howard, who sugges... More »
Quarterly Essay 26 His Masters Voice Public Debate In Howards Australia
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John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecuted leakers, criminalised protest and shut dow... More »
Quarterly Essay 25 Bipolar Nation
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Australians are more economically secure, yet existentially as anxious as ever. On the one hand we see a more prosperous, confident and "aspirational" society, and on the other the continuation of a well-cultivated sense... More »
Quarterly Essay 24 Nomads
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Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures of various kinds (in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas), and she herself calls three countries 'home' – Australia, England ... More »
Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question Who Owns The Past
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In QE23, acclaimed writer and thinker Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake – what kind of history do we want and need? What are the differences betwee... More »
Quarterly Essay 22: Voting For Jesus: The Christian Revival In Australia
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In QE22, Amanda Lohrey looks at the Christian revival in Australia and its effect on our politics and public life. Voting for Jesus explores the world of evangelical Christianity. Lohrey talks to the ground troops - what... More »
Quarterly Essay 21: What's Left
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According to Clive Hamilton the author of two recent Australian bestsellers, Growth Fetish and Affluenza - Australia needs a completely new politics built on the world as we find it. In his provocative new essay, he thro... More »
Quarterly Essay 20: A Time For War
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Quarterly Essay 20 combines riveting storytelling with fresh and provocative analysis. In it, bestselling author John Birmingham delves into our new military myths. Why has Anzac Day returned and Vietnam faded? Why do we... More »
Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed And Comfortable Why Australians Vote Liberal
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Australians are relaxed and comfortable with the Liberal Party. What is the party doing right? What is its core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or is he simply our Robert... More »
Quarterly Essay 18
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Why does Australia suddenly seem to be in the grip of an epidemic of depression? What role do big drug companies play in this new culture of anti-depressants in which lonely retirees and anxious high-school students pop ... More »
Quarterly Essay 17: Kangaroo Court
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'I am writing to voice my disgust as to my treatment by your Kangaroo Court known as the Family Court.' So began one of many hostile submissions to the 1992 parliamentary enquiry into the Family Law Act.
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Quarterly Essay 16 Breach Of Trust
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Many people are now dismayed by the relaxed attitude of governments here and abroad towards truth-telling. In Australia, examples come readily to mind: WMD and Iraq, children overboard and the Manildra affair. Deceitful ... More »
Quarterly Essay 15 Lathams World
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An election is impending. How well do we know Mark Latham, the leader of the ALP who would be the next prime minister? Margaret Simons, one of Australia’s foremost political journalists, delves into the heart and head of... More »
Quarterly Essay 14 Mission Impossible
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Can Iraq be democratised? After spending months in Iraq, Australian foreign correspondent Paul McGeough thinks not. He gives an historical overview of the tribal structure of Iraqi society, extending back thousands of ye... More »
Quarterly Essay 13: Sending Them Home
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In September 2001, Australia became more extreme in its policies toward asylum-seekers than any other Western country. It adopted a strategy of using naval force to exclude unauthorised arrivals by boa More »
Made In England Our British Inheritance Quarterly Essay 12
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Australia's British inheritance is a paradox that has preoccupied much of Malouf's fiction, and now it gives rise to a brilliant essay exploring Australia's connection with our one-time 'mother country'. In this remarkab... More »
Quarterly Essay: Issue 11
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Quarterly Essay 10: Bad Company, The Cult Of The CEO
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No extra details available for this item.This essay is a mini-history of business and shows how the classic traditions of capitalism by the managerialism of the present. More »
Quarterly Essay 7 Paradise Betrayed
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The latest in the thought-provoking Australian Quarterly Essay series. John Martinkus looks at the situation in West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya), and the problems encountered throughout this fragile nation. As the title ... More »
Quarterly Essay 6 Beyond Belief
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The 2001 federal election saw the Australian Labor Party enter a period of crisis from which it has not yet emerged. In Beyond Belief: The Future of the ALP, John Button unveils his thoughts on what has gone wrong, and w... More »
Quarterly Essay 8 Groundswell The Rise Of The Greens
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The last federal election saw a massive rise in support for the Greens. They doubled their primary vote and scored over $1.4 million in public funding. Suddenly they are a political force to be reckoned with ... but why?... More »
Quarterly Essay 5 Girt By Sea
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Quarterly Essay 4 Rabbit Syndrome Australian Us Relations
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Quarterly Essay 2: Appeasing Jakarta
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Quarterly Essay 1 In Denial The Stolen Generations & The Right
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A brilliant polemical essay which doubles as a succinct history of how the Aborigines were mistreated and an exposure of the ignorance of those who want to deny that history. More »