Quarterly Essay
On Women, Freedom and Misogyny
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Western women today have unprecedented freedom and power. In Australia we have a female prime minister and governor-general; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard's misogyny speech... Buy or find out more→
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future
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'During the term of the Rudd and Gillard governments, criticism of the Labor Party became a national pastime.' So writes Mark Latham, a one-time leader of the party and still its most perceptive - and fiercest - critic. In... Buy or find out more→
After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis
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When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world’s riches. That means we Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes. So... Buy or find out more→
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott:
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Tony Abbott is the most successful Opposition leader of the last forty years, but he has never been popular. Now Australians want to know: what kind of man is he, and how would he perform as prime minister? In this... Buy or find out more→
Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
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Why are Australians so disenchanted and angry when it comes to politics? Given how well the country is going, by all rights we should be delighted with our political leadership. And yet we’re not. In Quarterly Essay 46,... Buy or find out more→
Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals
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In this dazzling piece of reportage, Anna Krien investigates the contemporary animal kingdom and our place in it. From pets to food, from wildness to science experiments, Krien also reveals how animals are faring in this new world... Buy or find out more→
Man-made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet
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Winner of the John Button Prize 2012 Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague’s words:... Buy or find out more→
Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation
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This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of the press? In Bad News, Robert Manne investigates Murdoch’s lead political voice here,... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share Country And City In Australia
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The Australian Settlement, as formulated by Paul Kelly, had a sixth pillar: a settlement between the city and the country in which the state compensated people living in the country for the costs of remoteness and sparse... Buy or find out more→
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott
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Read our Q&A with David Marr about Political Animal here. Tony Abbott is the... Buy or find out more→
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
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David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf explores new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 39 Power Shift Australias Future Between Washington And Beijing
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This essay considers Australia's place between China and the US. As the power balance shifts and China's influence grows, what might this mean for the nation? How to define the national interest in the Asian Century? It considers... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 38 Power Trip The Political Journey Of Kevinrudd
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This irreverent, controversial account is a ground-breaking, in-depth profile that traces Rudd's years in Queensland, in China, in opposition and finally in government. Based on extensive research, observation and interviewing, it... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 37 Whats Right The Future Of Conservatism Inaustralia
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What did George W. Bush and John Howard do to conservatism? In their wake, the conservative parties in the US and Australia seem to have lost their way. How did the Right in Australia end up in this place? How might it renew... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 36 Australian Story Kevin Rudd And The Lucky Country
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Mungo MacCallum investigates political leadership in Australia, past and present. This is a barbed and perceptive look at the challenges facing the Rudd government and Australia. MacCallum argues that the things we used to rely on... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 34 Stop At Nothing
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Malcolm Turnbull has quite a job ahead of him as leader of the Liberal Party. How is he going so far? What can we expect in the years ahead? This is a scintillating look at Turnbull and the Liberals in opposition. It is based on... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 33 Quarry Vision Coal Climate Change And Theresources Boom
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This is an essay about 'quarry vision', the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral and energy resources, coal especially. How has this distorted our national politics and our response to climate change? What... Buy or find out more→
On the US Election
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Timed to come out immediately after the November 2008 election in the US, it offers a series of memorable snapshots of America in fascinating flux: Bush's last days in office; sub-prime meltdowns; markets, trust and community; the... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 31 Now Or Never A Sustainable Future
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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... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 30 On The Nt Intervention
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In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Toohey examines the wholesale attempt to change an entrenched way of life. He takes a perceptive, at time humorous, look at the encounter between outsiders, doctors, police,... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 29 Love And Money
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The author 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 of equality has to take into... Buy or find out more→
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... Buy or find out more→
Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option
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Australia is at a crossroads: do we need to embrace a nuclear future? In Reaction Time, Ian Lowe examines the science and the politics of nuclear power, as well as the feasible alternatives in an era of global warming. Buy or find out 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 critis, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecutred leakers, criminalised protest and shut down... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 25 Bipolar Nation
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This dazzling essay analyses today's bipolar nation , looks at the legacy of Paul Keating, and discusses how John Howard will set out to craft an election-winning strategy. It explains how the Lucky Country and the Frightened... Buy or find out more→
No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet
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In this scholarly, yet passionate essay the author explores the paradoxes and strengths of nomadism, in both its traditional and modern forms. Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 23 The History Question Who Owns The Past
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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? The author discusses what good history looks like and, more specifically, what good Australian... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 22 Voting For Jesus The Christian Revival In Australia
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Explores the world of evangelical Christianity. It also looks at the use and abuse of religion in party politics. Analysing the success of Family First, Lohrey argues that Christians have far less influence than they would like,... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 21 Whats Left
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According to the author, we need a completely new politics built on the world as we find it. In his provocative new essay, he throws out a challenge to the party of social democracy, the Labour Party - to both its true believers... Buy or find out more→
A Time for War: Australia as a Military Power
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Bestselling author John Birmingham delves into our new military myths. Why has Anzac Day returned and Vietnam faded? Why do we love war stories again? What does this mean for the troops on the ground? Buy or find out more→
Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia
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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 Menzies? Buy or find out more→
The Worried Well
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What role do drug companies play in the current culture of anti- depressants? This ground-breaking essay is about the widely acknowledged over-prescription of drugs in Australia. It investigates how prescription culture actually... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 17 Kangaroo Court
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The Family Court was a progressive reform of the 1970s. Now it is the most hated institution in Australia. What went wrong? This is a searching critique of its failures and injustices, supported by accounts of those who have... Buy or find out more→
Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders
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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 Australias foremost political journalists, delves into the heart and head of Mark... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay: Mission Impossible - The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq
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In this second Quarterly Essay of 2004 Paul McGeough offers a dramatic account of why Iraq remains in chaos despite desperate American efforts to create a model democracy in the Middle East. Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 13 Sending Them Home
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This is a groundbreaking and dramatic account of a transformation with global consequences. As other Western nations come to adopt similarly harsh measures, this account will serve as a prophetic evocation and analysis of the... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 12 Made In England Our British Inheritance
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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'. Malouf ponders the... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 10: Bad Company: the Cult of the Ceo
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In the second Quarterly Essay of 2003, Gideon Haigh scrutinises the way we have turned CEOs into tin gods. Is moral outrage the appropriate response to the collapses of Enron or HIH or are we all implicated in a crazy system?... Buy or find out 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. In a political era when the two major parties are so similar, the time is ripe... Buy or find out more→
Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence
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West Papua is today the site of a covert and brutal struggle. Investigative reporter John Martinkus has just returned from the region, where he has spoken to guerillas and Indonesian officers, politicians and ordinary people. His... Buy or find out more→
Quarterly Essay 6 Beyond Belief
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The latest in this successful series of current political essays. John Button reveals the workings of the Labor Party today, its successes and failures and where it is heading. Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2003. Buy or find out more→
Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America
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In the fourth Quarterly Essay Don Watson takes an analytical look at the ways in which the Australian imagination has always been dominated by America. Why are they so much better than we are? Even when it comes to producing... Buy or find out more→
Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy
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John Birmingham critically examines the Australia-Indonesia relationship. This essay is a controversial account of how the Australian Government's relation to Indonesia is characterised by delusion and misjudgment. Buy or find out more→