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Quarterly Essay 50: Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny by Anna Goldsworthy
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Category: Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard's misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched a n ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 51: The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when Church's handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott. A news-breaking and definitive portrait of Pell, at a time of maximum tension and scr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World by Linda Jaivin
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 53: That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution by Paul Toohey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott's signature promises: to stop the boats. Has his government succeeded? If so, at what cost?In Java, Toohey observes asylum seekers heading for Australia and reports on the Indonesian response. He tells the stories of individual refugees, loo ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 54: Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom by Andrew Charlton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts. China's rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring 100 times more quickly and on a scale 1000 times larger than Br ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 55: A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth by Noel Pearson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The nation has unfinished business. After more than two centuries, can a rightful place be found for Australia's original peoples? Soon we will all decide if and how indigenous Australians will be recognised in the constitution. In the words of Professor Greg Craven: 'We have a committed prime minister ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 56: Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer by Guy Rundle
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Category: Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Who is Clive Palmer, and what does his ascent say about Australia's creaking political system?In Clivosaurus, Guy Rundle observes Palmer close up, examining his rise to prominence, his beliefs, his deals and his politics - not to mention his poetry. Rundle shows that neither the government nor the media ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 57: Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Fiction | 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: Literary Essays | 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 60: Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern by Laura Tingle
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Category: Fiction | 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 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
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Category: Non-Fiction | 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 62: Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War by James Brown
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Category: Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
"Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold the line. What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to g ...Show more