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Bipolar Nation: How to Win the 2007 Election: Quarterly Essay 25 by Peter Hartcher
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Bipolar Nation, Peter Hartcher discusses the fantasies and realities at the heart of our politics. When our political leaders look at us, what do they see? What are the hopes, fears and dreams of the Australian electorate, and how might they be turned to election winning advantage? What, most fundame ...Show more
Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard: Quarterly Essay 28 by Judith Brett
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Exit Right, Judith Brett explains why the tide turned on John Howard. This is an essay about leadership, in particular Howard's style of strong leadership which led him to dominate his party with such ultimately catastrophic results. In this definitive account, Brett discusses how age became Howard's ...Show more
Japan’s past and present by Kurt Almqvist (Editor); Yukiko Duke Bergman (Editor)
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Category: History and Politics | Series: Essay Ser.
Japanese civilisation and its unique culture has often represented an enigma to the rest of the world. In this anthology a large number of experts explore Japans history and aspects of the Japanese quest for a national identity and what it means to the rest of the world through topics like architecture, ...Show more
Liberty: The Evolution of an Idea by John Bew (Text by); Adrian Bradshaw (Text by); Alexander McCall Smith (Text by)
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Category: History and Politics | Series: Essay Ser.
Liberty is indispensable to flourishing societies the world over. Its story contains multitudes - humanity's eternal struggle with fate, our ancestors' long quest to establish freedom of thought and freedom of religion, the rise of democratic liberties in society at large and the modern fight against au ...Show more
Love and Money by Anne Manne; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Reference | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Love & Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work - its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations. This is an essay that ranges widely a ...Show more
Man and Technology by Sir Hew Strachan
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Category: History and Politics | Series: Essay Ser.
Technology is at the heart of the human story. In an era of transformation, comprehending what drives these changes means understanding the history of man's relationship with technology. In this anthology of essays, world-leading historians, academics and writers explore innovation, industry and the eco ...Show more
No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet by Robyn Davidson; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures - in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas - and she herself calls three countries home. In this Quarterly Essay, she draws on ...Show more
QUARTERLY ESSAY 27 REACTION TIME by Ian Lowe; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia is at a crossroads- do we need to embrace a nuclear future? In Reaction Time, Ian Lowe examines the science and the politics of nuclear power, as well as the feasible alternatives in an era of global warming. Lowe discusses his one-time belief in nuclear power and what led to the faltering of ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 26 - His Master's Voice: Public Debate in Howard's Australia by David Marr; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecuted leakers, criminalised protest and shut down parliamentary scrutiny. Though touted as a contest of values, this has been a part ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 30 - Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention by Paul Toohey
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When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor conti ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 31 - Now or Neve r: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twe ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 32 - On the US Election by Delia Falconer (Editor); Kate Jennings
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Category: Essays and Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Where were you when America elected Barack Obama? Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time- 'the run-up to the election ... a time when every day felt like a year and we became slightly crazed from worry but also mesmerised, unable to switch off the cable new ...Show more