Robert Manne
Quarterly Essay 43: Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
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 ... Buy or find out more →
Making Trouble: Essays Against The New Australian Complacency
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne.
In Making Trouble, Australia’s leading public intellectual takes aim at the “new Australian complacency”.
Th... Buy or find out more →
Goodbye To All That? On The Failure Of Neoliberalism And The Urgency Of Change
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
This is the first substantial book to explore what the global financial crisis means for Australia. It looks past “neoliberalism” and “economic rationalism” and asks what kind of social democracy we might hope for in the... Buy or find out more →
Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas For A Better Australia
$29.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
With the election of the Rudd government, there is revived interest in the nation’s future – both the challenges and the opportunities. What kind of future can we imagine for Australia?
Dear Mr Rudd offers new essays... Buy or find out more →
Do Not Disturb: The Media And Australian Politics
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At a time when the Howard government has radically narrowed the national vision, the mainstream media has failed to notice or to hold it to account. Do Not Disturb offers diverse and enlightening explanations for this fa... Buy or find out more →
Left Right Left
$34.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Anyone who has read one of Robert Manne's newspaper columns or one of his powerful Quarterly Essays will find here a treasure-house of thought, argument and evocation. The perfect book for anyone interested in the key po... Buy or find out more →
The Way We Live Now
$25.00 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Australia has undergone profound change in the 90s. The way we live and think has been influenced by recession, by the theories of economic rationalism, by the fall of Keating and the rise of Howard, by debates about rac... Buy or find out more →
Quarterly Essay 13: Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference
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In the first Quarterly Essay of 2004, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Mann... Buy or find out more →
The Howard Years
$29.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
A powerful collection of essays by Australia's leading thinkers on what the Howard years have meant for Australia, edited by renowned political commentator, Robert Manne. Contributors include: Mungo MacCallum, Judith Bre... Buy or find out more →