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Quarterly Essay Series
98 primary works • 98 total works
Book 1
In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right (Quarterly Essay #1)
Robert Manne
3.91 avg. rating · 79 Ratings
Book 2
Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy (Quarterly Essay #2)
John Birmingham
3.56 avg. rating · 39 Ratings
Book 3
The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction (Quarterly Essay #3)
Guy Rundle
3.34 avg. rating · 35 Ratings
Book 4
Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America (Quarterly Essay #4)
Don Watson
3.31 avg. rating · 29 Ratings
Book 5
Girt By Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear (Quarterly Essay #5)
Mungo MacCallum
3.69 avg. rating · 26 Ratings
Book 6
Beyond Belief: What Future for Labor? (Quarterly Essay #6)
Button John
3.35 avg. rating · 17 Ratings
Book 7
Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence (Quarterly Essay #7)
John Martinkus
3.56 avg. rating · 18 Ratings
Book 8
Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens (Quarterly Essay #8)
Amanda Lohrey
3.36 avg. rating · 28 Ratings
Book 9
Beautiful Lies: Population and Environment In Australia (Quarterly Essay #9)
Flannery Tim
3.14 avg. rating · 28 Ratings
Book 10
Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO (Quarterly Essay #10)
Gideon Haigh
3.1 avg. rating · 21 Ratings
Book 11
Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood
Germaine Greer
3.77 avg. rating · 83 Ratings
Book 12
Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance (Quarterly Essay #12)
David Malouf
3.57 avg. rating · 23 Ratings
Book 13
Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference (Quarterly Essay #13)
Robert Manne
4 avg. rating · 23 Ratings
Book 14
Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq (Quarterly Essay #14)
Paul McGeough
3.83 avg. rating · 12 Ratings
Book 15
Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders (Quarterly Essay #15)
Margaret Simons
3.29 avg. rating · 14 Ratings
Book 16
Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics (Quarterly Essay #16)
Raimond Gaita
3.43 avg. rating · 14 Ratings
Book 17
'Kangaroo Court': Family Law in Australia (Quarterly Essay #17)
John Hirst
2.89 avg. rating · 18 Ratings
Book 18
The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of our Sorrows (Quarterly Essay #18)
Gail Bell
3.12 avg. rating · 32 Ratings
Book 19
Relaxed & Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (Quarterly Essay #19)
Judith Brett
3.81 avg. rating · 21 Ratings
Book 20
A Time for War: Australia as a Military Power (Quarterly Essay #20)
John Birmingham
3.52 avg. rating · 27 Ratings
Book 21
What's Left?: The Death of Social Democracy (Quarterly Essay #21)
Clive Hamilton
3.38 avg. rating · 32 Ratings
Book 22
Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia (Quarterly Essay, #22)
Amanda Lohrey
3.53 avg. rating · 34 Ratings
Book 23
The History Question: Who Owns the Past? (Quarterly Essay #23)
Inga Clendinnen
3.6 avg. rating · 48 Ratings
Book 24
No Fixed Address
Robyn Davidson
3.82 avg. rating · 158 Ratings
Book 25
Bipolar Nation: How to Win the 2007 Election (Quarterly Essay #25)
Peter Hartcher
2.88 avg. rating · 8 Ratings
Book 26
His Master's Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard (Quarterly Essay #26)
David Marr
3.7 avg. rating · 43 Ratings
Book 27
Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (Quarterly Essay #27)
Ian Lowe
3.59 avg. rating · 17 Ratings
Book 28
Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard (Quarterly Essay #28)
Judith Brett
3.96 avg. rating · 24 Ratings
Book 29
Love & Money: The Family and the Free Market (Quarterly Essay #29)
Anne Manne
3.94 avg. rating · 31 Ratings
Book 30
Last Drinks: The Impact of the Nothern Territory Intervention (Quarterly Essay #30)
Paul Toohey
3.39 avg. rating · 36 Ratings
Book 31
Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia? (Quarterly Essay #31)
Flannery Tim
3.68 avg. rating · 41 Ratings
Book 32
American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama (Quarterly Essay #32)
Kate Jennings
2.86 avg. rating · 21 Ratings
Book 33
Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom (Quarterly Essay #33)
Guy Pearse
3.7 avg. rating · 20 Ratings
Book 34
Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull
Annabel Crabb
3.89 avg. rating · 622 Ratings
Book 35
Radical Hope: Education and Equality in Australia (Quarterly Essay #35)
Noel Pearson
3.71 avg. rating · 45 Ratings
Book 36
Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country (Quarterly Essay #36)
Mungo MacCallum
3.59 avg. rating · 32 Ratings
Book 37
What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia (Quarterly Essay #37)
Waleed Aly
3.86 avg. rating · 100 Ratings
Book 38
Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd (Quarterly Essay #38)
David Marr
3.88 avg. rating · 139 Ratings
Book 39
Power Shift: Australia's Future Between Washington and Beijing (Quarterly Essay #39)
Hugh White
3.61 avg. rating · 62 Ratings
Book 40
Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era (Quarterly Essay #40)
George Megalogenis
3.75 avg. rating · 85 Ratings
Book 41
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World (Quarterly Essay #41)
David Malouf
3.11 avg. rating · 257 Ratings
Book 42
Fair Share: Country and City in Australia (Quarterly Essay #42)
Judith Brett
3.45 avg. rating · 40 Ratings
Book 43
Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation (Quarterly Essay #43)
Robert Manne
3.83 avg. rating · 119 Ratings
Book 44
Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet (Quarterly Essay #44)
Andrew Charlton
3.36 avg. rating · 50 Ratings
Book 45
Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals (Quarterly Essay #45)
Anna Krien
4.09 avg. rating · 129 Ratings
Book 46
Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation (Quarterly Essay #46)
Laura Tingle
3.79 avg. rating · 143 Ratings
Book 47
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott (Quarterly Essay #47)
David Marr
3.97 avg. rating · 353 Ratings
Book 48
After The Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis (Quarterly Essay #48)
Tim Flannery
3.81 avg. rating · 85 Ratings
Book 49
Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future (Quarterly Essay #49)
Mark Latham
3.16 avg. rating · 81 Ratings
Book 50
Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny (Quarterly Essay #50)
Anna Goldsworthy
3.66 avg. rating · 143 Ratings
Book 51
The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (Quarterly Essay #51)
David Marr
4.21 avg. rating · 526 Ratings
Book 52
Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World (Quarterly Essay #52)
Linda Jaivin
3.99 avg. rating · 118 Ratings
Book 53
That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution (Quarterly Essay #53)
Paul Toohey
3.94 avg. rating · 72 Ratings
Book 54
Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom (Quarterly Essay #54)
Andrew Charlton
3.67 avg. rating · 45 Ratings
Book 55
A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth (Quarterly Essay #55)
Noel Pearson
3.96 avg. rating · 82 Ratings
Book 56
Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer (Quarterly Essay #56)
Guy Rundle
3.71 avg. rating · 80 Ratings
Book 57
Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly (Quarterly Essay #57)
Karen Hitchcock
4.33 avg. rating · 203 Ratings
Book 58
Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State (Quarterly Essay #58)
David Kilcullen
4.07 avg. rating · 163 Ratings
Book 59
Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power (Quarterly Essay #59)
David Marr
3.55 avg. rating · 300 Ratings
Book 60
Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern (Quarterly Essay #60)
Laura Tingle
4.09 avg. rating · 199 Ratings
Book 61
Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal (Quarterly Essay #61)
George Megalogenis
4.11 avg. rating · 145 Ratings
Book 62
Firing Line: Australia's Path to War (Quarterly Essay #62)
James Brown
3.6 avg. rating · 88 Ratings
Book 63
Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump (Quarterly Essay #63)
Don Watson
3.67 avg. rating · 170 Ratings
Book 64
The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming (Quarterly Essay #64)
Stan Grant
4.13 avg. rating · 252 Ratings
Book 65
The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race (Quarterly Essay #65)
David Marr
3.95 avg. rating · 288 Ratings
Book 66
The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock (Quarterly Essay #66)
Anna Krien
4.15 avg. rating · 153 Ratings
Book 67
Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal (Quarterly Essay #67)
Benjamin Law
4.45 avg. rating · 487 Ratings
Book 68
Without America: Australia in the New Asia (Quarterly Essay #68)
Hugh White
3.97 avg. rating · 164 Ratings
Book 69
Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future (Quarterly Essay #69)
Mark McKenna
4.02 avg. rating · 136 Ratings
Book 70
Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next (Quarterly Essay #70)
Richard Denniss
4.18 avg. rating · 321 Ratings
Book 71
Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman (Quarterly Essay #71)
Laura Tingle
3.85 avg. rating · 217 Ratings
Book 72
Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age (Quarterly Essay #72)
Sebastian Smee
3.48 avg. rating · 216 Ratings
Book 73
Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation (Quarterly Essay #73)
Rebecca Huntley
3.53 avg. rating · 148 Ratings
Book 74
The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost (Quarterly Essay #74)
Erik Jensen
3.17 avg. rating · 193 Ratings
Book 75
Men at Work: Australia’s Parenthood Trap (Quarterly Essay #75)
Annabel Crabb
4.37 avg. rating · 1039 Ratings
Book 76
Red Flag: Waking Up to China’s Challenge (Quarterly Essay #76)
Peter Hartcher
4.05 avg. rating · 314 Ratings
Book 77
Cry Me A River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin (Quarterly Essay #77)
Margaret Simons
4.09 avg. rating · 190 Ratings
Book 78
The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (Quarterly Essay #78)
Judith Brett
4.2 avg. rating · 261 Ratings
Book 79
The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics (Quarterly Essay #79)
Katharine Murphy
3.63 avg. rating · 281 Ratings
Book 80
The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand (Quarterly Essay #80)
Laura Tingle
3.79 avg. rating · 273 Ratings
Book 81
Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition (Quarterly Essay #81)
Alan Finkel
3.96 avg. rating · 335 Ratings
Book 82
Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic (Quarterly Essay #82)
George Megalogenis
3.8 avg. rating · 237 Ratings
Book 83
Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power (Quarterly Essay #83)
Lech Blaine
4.33 avg. rating · 578 Ratings
Book 84
The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia (Quarterly Essay #84)
Jess Hill
4.53 avg. rating · 544 Ratings
Book 85
Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (Quarterly Essay #85)
Sarah Krasnostein
4.15 avg. rating · 324 Ratings
Book 86
Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America (Quarterly Essay #86)
Hugh White
4.11 avg. rating · 253 Ratings
Book 87
Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy (Quarterly Essay #87)
Waleed Aly
3.46 avg. rating · 229 Ratings
Book 88
Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics (Quarterly Essay #88)
Katharine Murphy
4.01 avg. rating · 479 Ratings
Book 89
The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal (Quarterly Essay, #89)
Saul Griffith
4.07 avg. rating · 244 Ratings
Book 90
Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal (Quarterly Essay #90)
Megan Davis
4.2 avg. rating · 255 Ratings
Book 91
Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS (Quarterly Essay #91)
Micheline Lee
4.23 avg. rating · 202 Ratings
Book 92
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (Quarterly Essay #92)
Alan Kohler
4.3 avg. rating · 685 Ratings
Book 93
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay, #93)
Lech Blaine
4.14 avg. rating · 359 Ratings
Book 94
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future
Joëlle Gergis
4.3 avg. rating · 177 Ratings
Book 95
High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95
Don Watson
3.89 avg. rating · 209 Ratings
Book 96
Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics (Quarterly Essay, #96)
George Megalogenis
3.88 avg. rating · 250 Ratings
Book 97
Losing It: Can we stop violence against women and children?; Quarterly Essay 97
Jess Hill
4.57 avg. rating · 176 Ratings
Book 98
Hard New World: Our Post-American Future; Quarterly Essay 98
Hugh White
4.35 avg. rating · 91 Ratings