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Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation: Quarterly Essay 73 by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For some time, a majority of Australians have been saying they want change - on climate and energy, on housing and inequality, on corporate donations and their corrupting effect on democracy, to name just a few.Recent attention has focused on the angry, reactionary minority. But is there a progressive c ...Show more
Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation: Quarterly Essay 43 by Robert Manne
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Category: No Category | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
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, the Australian newspaper, and how it shapes debate. Since 2002, under the edi ...Show more
Love and Money by Anne Manne; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Love & Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work - its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations. This is an essay that ranges widely a ...Show more
QUARTERLY ESSAY 12: by David Malouf; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2003, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system ...Show more
QUARTERLY ESSAY 27 REACTION TIME by Ian Lowe; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Environment | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
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. Lowe discusses his one-time belief in nuclear power and what led to the faltering of ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 15: Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders by Margaret Simons; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the third Quarterly Essay of 2004, Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at Mark Latham, the self-proclaimed 'club buster' and the man who would be prime minister. Few doubt Latham's intelligence and ambition, but what will this amount to in government? Simons argues that if Labor is elected, it wil ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 48: After the Future by Tim Flannery; George Brandis (Contribution by); Chris Uhlmann (Contribution by); Mark Latham (Contribution by); Judith Brett (Contribution by); Jack Waterford (Contribution by); David Marr (Contribution by); Rachel Nolan (Contribution by)
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
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 how are we doing?In Quarterly Essay 48 Tim Flannery says: we're often failing ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
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Category: No Category | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession. What has gone wrong with our politics ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock by Anna Krien
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Category: Environment | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world. She visits the frontlines of Australia's climate wars - the Reef, the Galilee and Bowen basins, South Australia. She investigates the Adani mine, with its toxic politics and controversial economics. Talking ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 83: Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
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Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Who can be a larrikin and how is it used politically? The figure of the larrikin goes deep in Australian culture. But who can be a larrikin, and what are its political uses? This brilliant essay looks at Australian politics through the prisms of class, egalitarianism and masculinity. Lech Blaine exami ...Show more
Quaterly Essay 9781863954051White Fella Jump Up by Germaine Greer; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the thirdQuarterly Essayof 2003, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense ...Show more
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