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QE28 Exit Right The Unravelling of John Howard In Exit Right, Judith Brett explains why the tide turned on John Howard. This is an essay about leadership, in particular Howard's style of strong leadership which led him to dominate his party with such ultimately catastrophic results. Click here to read an extract. ISBN 978-1-86395-111-1 - $14.95- December 2007 |
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QE27 Reaction Time Climate Change and the Nuclear Option Australia is at a crossroads: do we need to embrace a nuclear future? In Reaction Time, Ian Lowe examines the science and the politics of nuclear power, as well as the feasible alternatives in an era of global warming. ISBN 978-1-86395-412-9 - $14.95- September 2007 |
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QE 26 His Master’s Voice In His Master’s Voice, David Marr investigates both a decade of suppression and the strange willingness of Australians to watch, with such little angst, their liberties drift away. ISBN 978-1-86395-405-1 - $14.95- June 2007 |
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QE 25 Bipolar Nation How to Win the 2007 Election By Peter Hartcher In this scintillating and original essay, Peter Hartcher discusses the fantasies and realities at the heart of our politics. ISBN 9781863954013 - $14.95- March 2007 |
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QE 24 No Fixed Address Nomads & the Future of the Planet
No Fixed Address is at once a breathtaking extreme travel diary,
a critique of our times and a rare glimpse of an ancient way of
life. ISBN 1863952861 - $14.95- December 2006 |
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QE 23 The History Question Who Owns The Past? This is an eloquent, engaging and thought-provoking essay that looks anew at one of the most divisive topics of recent times: how we as a nation remember the past. ISBN 1863952543 - $14.95- October 2006 |
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QE 22 Voting for Jesus Christianity and Politics in Australia From the Hillsong Church to the Family First Party, Australia appears to be experiencing an evangelical revival. In the second Quarterly Essay for 2006, Amanda Lohrey investigates that revival – its shape and scope, and what it means for the mainstream churches and the nation’s politics. ISBN 1863952306 - $14.95- June 2006 |
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QE 21 What's Left? The death of social democracy In the first Quarterly Essay of 2006, Clive Hamilton throws out the challenge to Australia’s party of social democracy – to both its true believers and right-wing machine men. Will it be business-as-usual and creeping atrophy, or will the Labor Party find a new way of talking to individualistic, affluent Australia? ISBN 186395 1822 - $14.95- March 2006 |
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QE 20 A Time for War The Rebirth of Australia's Military Culture A Time for War combines riveting storytelling with fresh and provocative analysis. In it, bestselling author John Birmingham delves into our new military myths. ISBN 186395 1342 - $14.95 - December 2005 |
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QE 19 Relaxed and Comfortable The Liberal Party's Australia Australians are relaxed and comfortable with the Liberal Party. What is the party doing right? What is its core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or is he simply our Robert Menzies? ISBN 186395094 - $13.95- August 2005 |
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QE 18 The Worried Well The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of
Our Sorrows In the second Quarterly Essay of 2005, Gail Bell investigates Australia's depression epidemic. Why, she wonders, do well over a million Australians now take antidepressant drugs? ISBN 186395 3817 - $13.95- June 2005 |
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QE 17 Kangaroo Court Family Law in Australia The Family Court was a progressive reform of the 1970s. Now it is perhaps the most hated institution in Australia. In the first Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Hirst investigates what went wrong. ISBN 186395 3418 - $13.95- March 2005 |
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QE 16 Breach of Trust Truth, Morality and Politics Gaita confronts essential questions about politics as it is practised today. ISBN 186395 2292 - $13.95 - December 2004 |
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QE 15 Latham's World The New Politics of the Outsiders A thought-provoking analysis of Mark Latham and his politics. ISBN 186395 1970 - $13.95 - September 2004 |
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QE 14 Mission Impossible The Sheikhs, the US and the future of Iraq A dramatic account of why Iraq remains in chaos despite the desperate American efforts to create a model democracy in the Middle East. ISBN 186395 1652 - $13.95 - June 2004 |
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QE 13 Sending Them Home Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference. Combining ethical reflection and acute political analysis, this essay initiates a new phase in the refugee debate. ISBN 1863952861 - $14.95- December 2006 |
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QE 12 Made in England Australia's British Inheritance A brilliant, deeply meditated essay by one of our finest writers about the traditions that shaped Australia and which connect it to one of the mightier traditions in world history. ISBN 186395 3957 - $12.95 - November 2003 |
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QE 11 Whitefella Jump Up The Shortest Way to Nationhood In this wide-ranging essay, Greer looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense of being Aboriginal might save the soul of Australia. ISBN 186395 371X - $12.95 - August 2003 |
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QE 10 Bad Company The cult of the CEO This essay is a mini-history of business and shows how the classic traditions of capitalism by the managerialism of the present. ISBN 186395 3558 - $12.95 - June 2003 |
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QE 9 Beautiful Lies Population & Environment in Australia Out of Print This essay launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. ISBN 186395 3396 - $11.95 - March 2003 |
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QE 8 Groundswell The Rise of the Greens This is a compelling portrait of the Greens and of their leader Bob Brown which depicts them as the most formidable attempt that has been made on the Left to deal with the damage of globalisation. ISBN 1863952861 - $14.95- December 2006 |
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QE 7 Paradise Betrayed West Papua's Struggle for Independence In this powerful, groundbreaking piece of reportage, Martinkus shows how West Papua is another East Timor waiting to happen and how this is made possible by the indifference of everyone from the United Nations to the Australian government. ISBN 186395 1636 - $11.95 - September 2002 |
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QE 6: Beyond Belief What Future for Labor? This is an essay by a man who still believes in Chifley's light on the hill but who thinks the only hope for the Australian Labor Party lies with new believers. Winner of Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2003 for Best Essay Advancing Public Debate. ISBN 186395 1474 - $11.95 - June 2002 |
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QE 5 Girt By Sea Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear This is a devastating account of the Howard government's treatment of refugees, and considers whether this treatment has anything in common with the policies that have characterised our better traditions. ISBN 186395 1237 - $11.95 - March 2002 |
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QE4 Rabbit Syndrome Australia and America This essay takes an analytical look at the ways in which the Australian imagination has always been dominated by America. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2002 for Best Essay Advancing Public Debate. ISBN 186395 1156 - $9.95 - December 2001 |
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QE3 The Opportunist John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction Out of Print This essay comes to grips with John Howard, who seems to have turned around his political fortunes by spurning refugees and writing blank cheques for America's War on Terrorism. ISBN 186395 3949 - $9.95 - October 2001 |
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QE2 Appeasing Jakarta Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy This essay takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. ISBN 186395 3868 - $9.95 - June 2001 |
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QE1 In Denial The Stolen Generations and the Right A brilliant polemical essay which doubles as a succinct history of how the Aborigines were mistreated and an exposure of the ignorance of those who want to deny that history.
Winner of the Qld Premier's Literary Award 2002 for Best Work Advancing Public Debate. ISBN 1444 884X - $9.95 - April 2001 |
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