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Quarterly Essay 57: Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Current Affairs | 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 59: Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path To Power by David Marr
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Category: Current Affairs | 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 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
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 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock by Anna Krien
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Category: Essays & Letters | 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 73: Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Essays & Letters | 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: Current Affairs | 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
Quaterley Essay : The History Question by Inga Clendinnen; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: No Category | 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
Quaterly Essay 9781863954051White Fella Jump Up by Germaine Greer; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the thirdQuarterly Essayof 2003, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense ...Show more
RABBIT SYNDROME AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA by Don Watson; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In "Rabbit Syndrome" Don Watson takes an analytical look at the ways in which the Australian imagination has always been dominated by America. Why are they so much better than we are? Even when it comes to producing books like the Updike "Rabbit" sequence that tell us what we are like? Why are they also ...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: Social Thought | 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
What's Left: The Death of Social Democracy: Quarterly Essay 21 by Chris Feik (Editor); Clive Hamilton
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Category: Essays & Letters | 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