Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War by James Brown
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Category: Non 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
Quarterly Essay 51: The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
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Category: Non Fiction | 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 68: Without America: Australia in the New Asia by Hugh White
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does this mean for Australia's future? In this controversial and urgent essay, Hugh White shows that the contest between America and China is classic power politics of the harshest kind. He argues that we are heading for a ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Non Fiction | 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 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 83: Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power by Lech Blaine
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Category: Non Fiction | 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
Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock by Anna Krien
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Category: Non Fiction | 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
QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The Third Book of General Ignorance gathers together 180 questions, both new and previously featured on the BBC TV programme's popular 'General Ignorance' round, and show why, when it comes to general knowledge, none of us knows anything at all. Who invented the sandwich? What was the best thing before ...Show more
2,024 QI Facts to Stop You in Your Tracks by John Lloyd; James Harkin; Anne Miller
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television. Here creator John Lloyd and QI elves James Harkin and Anne Miller bring together 2,024 brain-tickling brand new facts to stop you in your tracks... Humans glow in the dark. The Pope drives a blue Ford Focus. One of the moons of Uranus is called Ma ...Show more
1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over by John Lloyd
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a brand new selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.Bees can play football.Cholesterol is good for you.Camels gave humans the common cold.English has 3,000 words relating to drunkenness.In 1851 all the 436,800 sandwiches sold ...Show more
1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless by John Lloyd; James Harkin; John Mitchinson
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Category: Non Fiction | Series: Quite Interesting Ser.
The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1,234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that will leave you speechless. - Flowers get suntans.- Denmark imports prisoners.- Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.- The Republic of Ireland first got post ...Show more