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Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For some time, a majority of Australians have been saying they want change - on climate and energy, on housing and inequality, on corporate donations and their corrupting effect on democracy, to name just a few.Recent attention has focused on the angry, reactionary minority. But is there a progressive c ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 83: Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Who can be a larrikin and how is it used politically? The figure of the larrikin goes deep in Australian culture. But who can be a larrikin, and what are its political uses? This brilliant essay looks at Australian politics through the prisms of class, egalitarianism and masculinity. Lech Blaine exami ...Show more
Quarterly Essay: Kangaroo Court by John Hirst; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The Family Court was a progressive reform of the 1970s. Now it is perhaps the most hated institution in Australia. In the first Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Hirst investigates what went wrong. This is a measured yet unsparing appraisal which interleaves individual cases with compelling legal and moral ...Show more
Quarterly Essey 18: The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows by Gail Bell; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the second Quarterly Essay of 2005, Gail Bell investigates Australia's depression epidemic. Why, she wonders, do well over a million Australians now take antidepressant drugs? This is a fresh, frank and independent look at the depression culture and the move to medicalise sadness. Bell examines how t ...Show more
Quaterley Essay : The History Question by Inga Clendinnen; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In QE23, acclaimed writer and thinker Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? What are the differences between memory, history and myth? Clendinnen discusses what good history looks like and, m ...Show more
RELAXED AND COMFORTABLE QUARTERLY ESSAY by Judith Brett; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
What is the Liberal Party's core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or has he ingeniously modernised the strategies of his party's founder, Sir Robert Menzies? For Judith Brett, the governmeant of John Howard has done what successful Liberal governments hav ...Show more
Sending Them Home : Refugees and the New Politics of Indfference (Quarterley Essay 13) by Robert Manne; David Corlett; Chris Feik (Editor)
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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 Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
By Australia's greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life.;-) "Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous," says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular mome ...Show more
Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia: Quarterly Essay 22 by Amanda Lohrey
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In QE22, Amanda Lohrey looks at the Christian revival in Australia and its effect on our politics and public life. Voting for Jesusexplores the world of evangelical Christianity. Lohrey talks to the ground troops - what do they believe and why? She discusses Hillsong, the politics of abortion, the examp ...Show more
What's Left: The Death of Social Democracy: Quarterly Essay 21 by Chris Feik (Editor); Clive Hamilton
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Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
According to Clive Hamilton the author of two recent Australian bestsellers, Growth Fetish and Affluenza- Australia needs a completely new politics built on the world as we find it. In his provocative new essay, he throws out a challenge to the party of social democracy, the Labor Party - to both its tr ...Show more