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Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation: Quarterly Essay 43 by Robert Manne
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This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch's empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of the press? In Bad News, Robert Manne investigates Murdoch's lead political voice here, the Australian newspaper, and how it shapes debate. Since 2002, under the edi ...Show more
Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal by George Megalogenis
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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
Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet: Quarterly Essay 44 by Andrew Charlton
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Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: "The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves." In this groundbreaking essay, Charlto ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 31 - Now or Neve r: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
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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 33 - Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom by Guy Pearse; Gavin Kitching (Contribution by); Christina Thompson (Contribution by)
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Australia's response to climate change must truly baffle outsiders. Why do our leaders pretend that they are leading the world in the battle against global warming? When do environmental risks outweigh economic benefits? Why dig deeper when the rest of the world is looking for alternatives to coal? This ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era by George Megalogenis
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In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. Have we entered a new phase with minority government and the rise of the Greens and independents? The Hawke, Keating and Howard years were ones of bold reform; recently we have seen an era of ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 42: Fair Share: Country and City in Australia by Judith Brett
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For many decades Australia was the country that rode on the sheep's back. No more - now we are a country of mining and services. In QE42, one of Australia's most original and respected political thinkers, Judith Brett, looks at what this has meant for the country and the city in our politics and culture ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World by Linda Jaivin
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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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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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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 57: Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
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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 58: Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State by David Kilcullen
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Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flo ...Show more