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4 Classic Quarterly Essays on the Australian Story by David Malouf, Guy Rundle, Mungo MacCallum, Tim Flannery
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Each essay here offers an intriguing angle on the Australian story. There is David Malouf's elegant and truthful account of the British inheritance and Mungo MacCallum's devastating chronicling of the refugee crisis and Australian history.
A Time For War: The Rebirth of Australia's Military Culture: Quarterly Essay 20 by John Birmingham
Category: Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Birmingham ponders the Aust ralian way of war. After East Timor and Bali, a combination of primal fear and primal ambition has transformed attitudes to our region, to security and to war as an instrument of politics. Australian defence policy has become more a ...Show more
Bad Company -The Cult of the CEO by Gideon Haigh; Peter Craven (Editor)
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the second Quarterly Essay of 2003, 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 we all implicated in a crazy system? Haigh argues that the attempt to create great entrepreneurs of the new caste o ...Show more
Bipolar Nation: How to Win the 2007 Election: Quarterly Essay 25 by Peter Hartcher
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Bipolar Nation, Peter Hartcher discusses the fantasies and realities at the heart of our politics. When our political leaders look at us, what do they see? What are the hopes, fears and dreams of the Australian electorate, and how might they be turned to election winning advantage? What, most fundame ...Show more
Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard: Quarterly Essay 28 by Judith Brett
Category: Australian History | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
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 to dominate his party with such ultimately catastrophic results. In this definitive account, Brett discusses how age became Howard's ...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
Love and Money by Anne Manne; Chris Feik (Editor)
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
No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet by Robyn Davidson; Chris Feik (Editor)
Category: 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
Political Animal - The Making of Tony Abbott by David Marr (Read by)
Category: Audio | 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
QUARTERLY ESSAY 12: by David Malouf; Peter Craven (Editor)
Category: Australian Studies | 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)
Category: Australian Studies | 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 6 BEYOND BELIEF by John Button
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the second Quarterly Essay of 2002, John Button looks at what has gone wrong with the Labor Party. What has happened to the faith of the True Believers and why is the ALP so bad at recruiting new members? He offers a tough-minded analysis of what went wrong in the last election and asks why the Labor ...Show more