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4 Classic Quarterly Essays on the Australian Story by David Malouf, Guy Rundle, Mungo MacCallum, Tim Flannery
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Category: Australian Non fiction | 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
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Category: Australian Non 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)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
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Category: Australian Non fiction | 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
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Category: Australian Non fiction | 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)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | 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: Photography | 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
Love and Money by Anne Manne; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | 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)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | 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
Perpetual Slavery by Ciaran Finlayson; Aaron Bogart (Editor)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Critic's Essay Ser.
In Perpetual Slavery, Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labor haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery. Finlayson suggests that these two artists' work overcomes the dichotomy ...Show more
QUARTERLY ESSAY 27 REACTION TIME by Ian Lowe; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | 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 9 BEAUTIFUL LIES by Tim Flannery; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the first Quarterly Essayof 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold d ...Show more