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Tim Flannery
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…
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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? The author discusses what good…
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer challenges white Australians to come to terms with their past and present relationship with the indigenous community. She discusses Australia’s culture today, the current reconciliation process and the…
Amanda Lohrey
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…
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Gideon Haigh
In Bad Company 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…
John Birmingham
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.
Robert Manne
Attacks the right-wing campaign against the ‘Bringing Them Home’ report which revealed how thousands of Aborigines had been taken from their parents.
Mungo Maccallum
No issue has so divided Australians recently as how to handle the arrival on our shores of asylum seekers. This controversial account of Australia’s treatment of refugees by legandary political…
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John Button
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…
John Martinkus
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…
David Corlett,Robert Manne
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…
Paul McGeough
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…
Raimond Gaita
Many people are now dismayed by the relaxed attitude of governments here and abroad towards truth telling. In Australia, examples include WMD and Iraq, ‘children overboard’ and the Manildra affair…
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…
Robyn Davidson
In this scholarly, yet passionate essay the author explores the paradoxes and strengths of nomadism, in both its traditional and modern forms.
Ian Lowe
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…
Peter Hartcher
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…
David Marr
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…
Judith Brett
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…