Black Inc : 83 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 41 The Happy Life
The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life what it is,...
Quarterly Essay 13 Sending Them Home
Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
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...
Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope
Education & Equality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In Radical Hope, one of Australia’s most original and provocative thinkers turns his attention to the question of education. Noel Pearson begins with two fundamental questions: How to ensure the survival of a people, their culture and way of life? And can education transform the lives of the disadvantaged...
Quarterly Essay 16 Breach of Trust
Truth, Morality and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2004, Raimond Gaita confronts essential questions about politics as it is practised today. What do politicians mean when they talk about "trust"? Why is truthfulness important? Are we as politically and morally divided as the Americans? Does the war on terror authorise...
Quarterly Essay 6 Beyond Belief
What Future for Labor?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
In the second Quarterly Essay of 2002, John Button looks at what has gone wrong with the Labor Party. What has happened to the faith of the True Believers and why is the ALP so bad at recruiting new members? He offers a tough-minded analysis of what went wrong in the last election and asks why the...
Quarterly Essay 14 Mission Impossible
The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In the second Quarterly Essay of 2004, Paul McGeough offers a dramatic account of why Iraq remains in chaos despite desperate American efforts to create a model democracy in the Middle East. According to McGeough, Iraq to this day remains a tribal society. It cannot be governed without the cooperation...
Chasing October
The Dodgers-Giants Pennant Race of 1962
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
From the first pitch of April until the final out in October, the 1962 Dodgers and Giants staged a furious pennant fight that was every bit the equal of the fractious feuds waged during the rivalry's New York heyday of bench-clearing brawls.Set in what many call the last year of American innocence,”...
Quarterly Essay 36 Australian Story
Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In Australian Story, Mungo MacCallum investigates the political success of Kevin Rudd. What does he know about Australia that his opponents don’t? This is a characteristically barbed and perceptive look at the challenges facing the government and the country. MacCallum argues that the things we used...
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...
by Benjamin Law, Michelle Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Your Asian Mother Says: “You look just like Mummy when she was your age.” Your Asian Mother Means: “You will secure love and happiness thanks to my genes so essentially you owe me everything.” Benjamin Law and Michelle Law, the long-suffering children of an Asian Mother, bring you the hilarious...
by Zane Grey
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Greed and gold unleash a storm of robbery, vengeance, and murder. On the word of a dying Indian, the three Emerson brothers come to Thunder Mountain in the Sawtooth Range and discover more gold than they ever dreamed possible. But instead of finding peace and prosperity, Jake, Kalispel, and Sam Emerson find more treachery than any normal men could hope to survive.
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 9 Beautiful Lies
Population and Environment in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold...