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Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation: Quarterly Essay 73 by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Essays | 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: Contemporary Thought | 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
In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right by Robert Manne; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: Political | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In this national bestseller Robert Mane attacks the right-wing campaign against the Bringing them homereport that revealed how thousands of Aborigines had been taken from their parents. What was the role of Paddy McGuinness as editor of Quadrant? How reliable was the evidence that led newspaper columnis ...Show more
Japan’s past and present
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Category: Asian | Series: Essay Ser.
Japanese civilisation and its unique culture has often represented an enigma to the rest of the world. In this anthology a large number of experts explore Japans history and aspects of the Japanese quest for a national identity and what it means to the rest of the world through topics like architecture, ...Show more
Liberty: The Evolution of an Idea
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Category: European | Series: Essay Ser.
Liberty is indispensable to flourishing societies the world over. Its story contains multitudes - humanity's eternal struggle with fate, our ancestors' long quest to establish freedom of thought and freedom of religion, the rise of democratic liberties in society at large and the modern fight against au ...Show more
Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet: Quarterly Essay 44 by Andrew Charlton
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
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: "The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves." In this groundbreaking essay, Charlto ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 31 - Now or Neve r: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twe ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 36: Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Australian Story, Mungo MacCallum investigates the political success of Kevin Rudd. What does he know about Australia that his opponents don't? This is a characteristically barbed and perceptive look at the challenges facing the government and the country. MacCallum argues that the things we used to ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 38: Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd by David Marr
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
This irreverent, controversial account is sure to be one of the most talked-about publications of election year 2010 - a ground-breaking, in-depth profile that traces Kevin Rudd's years in Queensland, in China, in opposition and finally in government. Based on extensive research, observation and intervi ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 42: Fair Share: Country and City in Australia by Judith Brett
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Category: Anthologies & Journals | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For many decades Australia was the country that rode on the sheep's back. No more - now we are a country of mining and services. In QE42, one of Australia's most original and respected political thinkers, Judith Brett, looks at what this has meant for the country and the city in our politics and culture ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 45: Us and Them: On The Importance Of Animals by Anna Krien
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship with animals changed? In this dazzling essay, Anna Krien investigates the world we have made and the complexity of the c ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 47: Political Animal: David Marr on Tony Abbott by David Marr
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Winner of the 2013 John Button Prize The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book - and a crucial election-year companion. Australians want to know: what kind of man is Tony Abbott, and how would he perform as prime minister? In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows tha ...Show more