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Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation: Quarterly Essay 43 by Robert Manne
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | 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
Best Australian Essays 2014 by Robert Manne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'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)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
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
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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)
$9.95 AUD
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
Left Right Left by Robert Manne
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
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
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
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
Sending Them Home : Refugees and the New Politics of Indfference (Quarterley Essay 13) by Robert Manne; David Corlett; Chris Feik (Editor)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2004, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine t ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2013 by Robert Manne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In The Best Australian Essays 2013, Robert Manne draws out this year's most distinctive voices. This superb collection encompasses the personal, with Robert Dessaix's distant summer of love and touch-typing and Helen Garner's reaction to the death of Jill Meagher; and the political, with Chloe Hooper an ...Show more