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Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal by George Megalogenis
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | 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
Quarterly Essay 51: The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when Church's handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott. A news-breaking and definitive portrait of Pell, at a time of maximum tension and scr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 57: Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs. Ours ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State by David Kilcullen
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flo ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 59: Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path To Power by David Marr
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The top job is within Bill Shorten's grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country? In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidab ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War by James Brown
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
"Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold the line. What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to g ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within American Politics in the Time of Trump by Don Watson
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 - and the strangest election campaign that country has seen. Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the "thicket of unreality" that is the American media. Behin ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock by Anna Krien
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | 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 67 Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance, and The Safe Schools Scandal QE67 by Benjamin Law
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
In 2016, the Safe Schools program became the focus of an ideological firestorm. In Moral Panic 101, Benjamin Law explores how and why this happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping account of schools today, sexuality, teenagers, new ideas of gender fluidity, media scandal and mental health.In this timely e ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 68: Without America: Australia in the New Asia by Hugh White
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does this mean for Australia's future? In this controversial and urgent essay, Hugh White shows that the contest between America and China is classic power politics of the harshest kind. He argues that we are heading for a ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future by Mark McKenna
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Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing passionate debates and fresh recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history war ...Show more