Quarterly Essay imprint: 77 books
Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?
The Future of Conservatism in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, conservative parties in the US and Australia entered a period of turmoil. Foreign affairs, economics, the environment – all were issues to be avoided. Most profoundly, conservatives no longer seemed to have a compelling...
Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream
Blood, History and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cultural, sporting,...
Quarterly Essay 32 American Revolution
The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
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...
Quarterly Essay 31 Now or Never
A Sustainable Future for Australia?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
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...
Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them
On the Importance of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship with animals changed? In this dazzling essay, Anna Krien investigates the world we have made and the complexity of the...
Quarterly Essay 70 Dead Right
How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial?
In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society. For...
Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place
Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
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...
Quarterly Essay 71 Follow the Leader
Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
What is true political leadership, and how do we get it? What qualities should we wish for in our leaders? And why is it killing season for prime ministers?
In this wise and timely essay, Laura Tingle argues that democratic leaders build a consensus for change, rather than bludgeon the system...
Quarterly Essay 72 Net Loss
The Inner Life in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
We live in an age of constant distraction. Is there a price to pay for this?
In this superb essay, renowned critic Sebastian Smee explores the fate of the inner life in the age of the internet. Throughout history, artists and thinkers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitude...
Quarterly Essay 73 Australia Fair
Listening to the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
What do Australians want most from their next government? In this vivid, grounded, surprising essay, Rebecca Huntley listens to the people and hears a call for change.
Too often we focus on the angry, reactionary minority. But, Huntley shows, there is also a large progressive centre. For some...
by Peter Hartcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2019
China has become a key nation for Australia’s future – for our security, economy and identity. But what are China’s intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia?
In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts...
Quarterly Essay 27 Reaction Time
Climate Change and the Nuclear Option
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Australia is at a crossroads: if we are to halt global warming, do we need to stride resolutely into a nuclear future?
In this engrossing and persuasive essay, Ian Lowe discusses his one-time belief in the benefits of nuclear power and explains why that belief has faltered. He engages with...
Quarterly Essay 51 The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests.
In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man and his career: how did he...
Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet
Labor's Post-Left Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?
With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s...