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RABBIT SYNDROME AUSTRALIA AND AMERICA by Don Watson; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: No Category | 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
RELAXED AND COMFORTABLE QUARTERLY ESSAY by Judith Brett; Chris Feik (Editor)
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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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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: No Category | 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
The Opportunist - John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction by Guy Rundle; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: No Category | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the third Quarterly Essay, Guy Rundle comes to grips with John Howard, the prime minister who, on the eve of an election, seems to have turned round his political fortunes by spurning refugees and writing blank cheques for America's War on Terror. This is a brilliant account of John Howard's dominant ...Show more
Trivial Pursuit - Leadership and the End of the Reform Era by George Megalogenis (Read by)
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Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the last Quarterly Essayfor 2010, George Megalogenis considers Australia's political dead zone. The Hawke, Keating and early Howard years were ones of bold reform; recently we have seen an era of power without purpose. But why? Is it down to powerful lobbies, or the media, or a failure of leadership, ...Show more
Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia: Quarterly Essay 22 by Amanda Lohrey
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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: 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