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Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation: Quarterly Essay 73 by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | 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
Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country: Quarterly Essay 36 by Mungo MacCallum
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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
Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation: Quarterly Essay 43 by Robert Manne
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Category: Australian Politics | 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
Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal by George Megalogenis
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Category: Australian Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay
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
Love and Money by Anne Manne; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Politics | 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
Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet: Quarterly Essay 44 by Andrew Charlton
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Category: Australian Politics | 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
No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet by Robyn Davidson; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures - in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas - and she herself calls three countries home. In this Quarterly Essay, she draws on ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 26 - His Master's Voice: Public Debate in Howard's Australia by David Marr; Chris Feik (Editor)
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John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecuted leakers, criminalised protest and shut down parliamentary scrutiny. Though touted as a contest of values, this has been a part ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 34: Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
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 extensive interviews with and observation of Turnbull, who emerges as a fas ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 37: What's Right? The Future of Conservatism in Australia by Waleed Aly
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
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 itself? This essay unravels the terms Right and Left, and discusses what a bett ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 38: Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd by David Marr
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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 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era by George Megalogenis
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. Have we entered a new phase with minority government and the rise of the Greens and independents? The Hawke, Keating and Howard years were ones of bold reform; recently we have seen an era of ...Show more