Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand by Laura Tingle
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Category: Essays & Letters
In a tumultuous year, Australia and New Zealand have never been closer, as we move towards a shared travel zone. But why, despite being so close, do we seem to know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at lea ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Essays & Letters
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
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Category: Essays & Letters
'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'. Olivia Laing. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tribute ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 60: Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern by Laura Tingle
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Quarterly Essay
Whatever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world? In this crisp, profound and witty essay, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. She ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War; Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America by Hugh White
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Category: Essays & Letters
Is the US-Australia alliance now based on a fantasy? In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia's fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position - what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? White considers t ...Show more
Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Whether it’s man’s best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We’re happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion’s share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in the room or try not to open a can of worms. Anima ...Show more
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
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Category: Essays & Letters
What is the relationship between Marie Kondo and many modern novels? Why do we get addicted to stories - particularly when they're about serial killers? Seven years after #metoo, how can we have the sex we really want? Is it ok to think Troll 2 is a good film?In All Things Are Too Small, virtuoso young ...Show more
Time to Listen An Indigenous Voice to Parliament by Melissa Castan, Lynette Russell
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 2023, debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament swirls around us as Australia heads towards a referendum on amending the Constitution to make this Voice a reality. The idea of a ' First Nations Voice' was famously raised in 2017, when Indigenous leaders drafted the Statement from the Heart-- als ...Show more
Hunter S Thompson - The Last Interview and other conversations by Hunter S Thompson; David Streitfeld (ed.)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: The\Last Interview Ser. | Reading Level: good
Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews tha ...Show more
Easy Lies & Influence (In the National Interest) by Fiona McLeod
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Grift and stacking are commonplace as those chasing influence infiltrat ...Show more
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her history-making address to the United Nations Everything needs to change. And it has to start today. In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided no ...Show more