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Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation by Robert Manne
Category: Australian History
In the third Quarterly Essay for 2011, Robert Manne investigates the forces that shape public debate in Australia. When it comes to key issues for the nation, who sets the media agenda and how do they do it? Since the 1980s, mainstream coverage of politics in Australia has become less and less diverse. ...Show more
Best Australian Essays 2014 by Robert Manne
Category: Languages and Reference
'Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinchi ...Show more
Dear Mr Rudd by Robert Manne (ed)
Category: History
In Dear Mr Rudd, leading Australian thinkers offer essays on key areas of interest: climate change, the economy, human rights, the republic, water and much more besides. Contributors include Hugh White, Pat Dodson, Julian Disney, and more. First published March 2008.
Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia? by Robert Manne
Category: Languages and Reference
A book in which insiders assess the performance and political influence of the Australian media. It offers a critique of its strengths and weaknesses, and is not afraid to point the finger. Contributors include David Marr, Robert Manne, Wendy Bacon, Julia Baird, Jon Faine and Eric Beecher.
Goodbye to All That?: On the Failure of Neo-liberalism and the Urgency of Change by Robert Manne
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Explores what the global financial crisis means for Australia. Looks past 'neo-liberalism' and 'economic rationalism' and asks what kind of social democracy we might hope for in the future. Are the heady days of deregulation and privatisation over? How might we rethink the challenge of climate change, o ...Show more
In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right by Robert Manne; Peter Craven (Editor)
Category: History | 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
Left Right Left by Robert Manne
Category: Fiction
Anyone who has read one of Robert Manne's newspaper columns or one of his powerful Quarterly Essayswill find here a treasure-house of thought, argument and evocation. The perfect book for anyone interested in the key political and cultural controversies of the past thirty years.
Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency by Robert Manne
Category: Languages and Reference
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne. This is a book that will enlighten and provoke. It covers much ground from Howard to Gillard by way of Rudd, from Victoria's bushfires to the Apology, from Wilfred Burchett to Primo Levi.
On Borrowed Time by Robert Manne
Category: History
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual. In On Borrowed Time, Manne applies his brilliant mind to the topics that have shaped our world over the last five years, including climate change, the media, Australia's asylum seeker policy and Wikileaks. This provocative ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 43: Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation by Robert Manne
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
Robert Manne: A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars by Robert Manne
Category: Reference
The recollections of Australia's leading public intellectual Robert Manne is one of Australia's most profound political analysts. His memoir traces his intellectual roots, revealing how his family background and early years informed the questions he would spend his life trying to answer. It also provide ...Show more