Quarterly Essays
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Quarterly Essay 44: Man Made World
- Choosing Between Progress and Planet
- Written by: Andrew Charlton
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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In QE44, Andrew Charlton exposes the rift that will shape our future progress versus planet; rich versus poor. Who, then, will save us? Charlton shows there are two leading candidates: economists and environmentalists. Each says they know what is best for our grandchildren. Yet environmentalists see economists as merchants of greed with a blind faith in markets. And economists see environmentalism as an indulgence for the middle class of richer nations; those who enjoy the lifestyle afforded by economic growth, but take its source for granted.
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Quarterly Essay 44: Man Made World
- Choosing Between Progress and Planet
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-03
- Language: English
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Us and Them
- On the Importance of Animals
- Written by: Anna Krien
- Narrated by: Anna Krien
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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In this dazzling piece of reportage, Anna Krien investigates the contemporary animal kingdom and our place in it. From pets to food, from wildness to science experiments, Krien also reveals how animals are faring in this new world order. Examples range from the joyful to the deeply unsettling. As Krien delves deeper, she finds that animals can trigger primal emotions in us, which we are often not willing to acknowledge. "Us and Them" is a clear-eyed look at how we do - and should - treat animals.
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Us and Them
- On the Importance of Animals
- Narrated by: Anna Krien
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-03
- Language: English
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Great Expectations
- Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
- Written by: Laura Tingle
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the answer goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle shows, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minister has grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive the federation. Through all of this, and back to our origins, runs an almost childlike sense of the government as saviour and provider.
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Great Expectations
- Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-14
- Language: English
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Political Animal
- The Making of Tony Abbott
- Written by: David Marr
- Narrated by: David Marr
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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In Quarterly Essay 47, David Marr goes beyond the clichés - Dr No, mad monk, gaffe-prone, budgie-smuggling gym junkie - to look at the man as he is and reveal what kind of prime minister he might be.
This is a unique portrait of a unique politician. Marr shows Abbott as part reactionary and part pragmatist, part fighter and part charmer, deeply religious and deeply political. But is Abbott a figure from the past or a leader for the future? Following the explosive Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd, this is certain to be the most discussed political writing of the year.
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Political Animal
- The Making of Tony Abbott
- Narrated by: David Marr
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 2012-09-19
- Language: English
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After the Future
- Australia's New Extinction Crisis
- Written by: Tim Flannery
- Narrated by: Tim Flannery
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world's riches. That means we Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes. So how are we doing? In Quarterly Essay 48 Tim Flannery says: we're often failing nature. In the clash between money and conservation, money usually wins.
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After the Future
- Australia's New Extinction Crisis
- Narrated by: Tim Flannery
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-12
- Language: English
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Not Dead Yet
- Labor's Post-Left Future
- Written by: Mark Latham
- Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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In Quarterly Essay 49, Latham argues that the time has come to go beyond criticism to solutions. In that spirit, he offers a timely assessment of the future for Labor. He examines the key challenges: the union nexus, the Keating settlement, a real education revolution, a new war on poverty, climate change, and handling the Greens. With wit and insight, he suggests that Labor's biggest problem is the steady erosion of its traditional working-class base.
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Not Dead Yet
- Labor's Post-Left Future
- Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2013-04-01
- Language: English
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Unfinished Business
- Sex, Freedom and Misogyny
- Written by: Anna Goldsworthy
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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What cultural messages do they receive about work and home, about sex and their bodies? Why do so many reject the feminist label? This is an original, often hilarious look at role models and available options in the age of social media and sexual frankness. With piercing insight, Goldsworthy lays bare the dilemmas of being a woman today and asks how women can truly become free agents.
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Unfinished Business
- Sex, Freedom and Misogyny
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2013-07-01
- Language: English
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The Prince
- Faith, Abuse and George Pell
- Written by: David Marr
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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George Pell: leader of the Catholic Church in Australia, confessor to Tony Abbott. David Marr: the nation's leading biographer and investigative journalist. Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when the Church's handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott.
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The Prince
- Faith, Abuse and George Pell
- Narrated by: Paul English
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-01
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation
- In Praise of a Plural World
- Written by: Linda Jaivin
- Narrated by: Linda Jaivin
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture. As a traveller, a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you asked for noodles, and mistranslations in international politics can be a few steps from serious trouble.
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Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation
- In Praise of a Plural World
- Narrated by: Linda Jaivin
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2013-12-01
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 53: That Sinking Feeling
- Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution
- Written by: Paul Toohey
- Narrated by: Dave Graney
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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In the first Quarterly Essay of 2014, Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we’ve now missed our chance. Tony Abbott promised to stop the boats. With the help of Kevin Rudd’s "PNG solution", he has. But at what cost? Visiting the Indonesian departure points, Toohey tells the dramatic stories of asylum seekers heading from Java to Australia, investigates people-smuggling and witnesses the aftermath of a sinking at sea.
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Quarterly Essay 53: That Sinking Feeling
- Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution
- Narrated by: Dave Graney
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2014-03-24
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 58
- Blood Year: Losing the War on Terror
- Written by: David Kilcullen
- Narrated by: Nick Farnell
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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Last year was a “blood year” in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flowing into Syria at a rate ten times that during the height of the Iraq War. What went wrong?In Blood Year, David Kilcullen calls on twenty-five years’ experience to answer that question.
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Quarterly Essay 58
- Blood Year: Losing the War on Terror
- Narrated by: Nick Farnell
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-28
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 59: Faction Man
- Bill Shorten’s Path to Power
- Written by: David Marr
- Narrated by: David Marr
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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Bill Shorten is the man who would be our next prime minister. David Marr is the nation's leading writer of political biography. Marr's Quarterly Essay profiles of Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott ignited firestorms of media coverage and were national best sellers. In Quarterly Essay 59, he turns his enquiring mind toward Bill Shorten. This controversial and brilliant new essay looks at the making of Shorten.
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Quarterly Essay 59: Faction Man
- Bill Shorten’s Path to Power
- Narrated by: David Marr
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 2015-09-24
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 60
- Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
- Written by: Laura Tingle
- Narrated by: Vanessa Killen
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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What ever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world? In this crisp, profound, and witty essay, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. She ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of the once-great Australian public service, from the jingoism of the past to the tabloid scandals of the Internet age.
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Quarterly Essay 60
- Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
- Narrated by: Vanessa Killen
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2016-05-02
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 61
- Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession & Renewal
- Written by: George Megalogenis
- Narrated by: George Megalogenis
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
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In this urgent essay, George Megalogenis argues that Australia risks becoming globalisation’s next and most unnecessary victim. The next shock, whenever it comes, will find us with our economic guard down, and a political system that has shredded its authority. Megalogenis outlines the challenge for Malcolm Turnbull and his government. Our tax system is unfair and we have failed to invest in infrastructure and education.
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Quarterly Essay 61
- Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession & Renewal
- Narrated by: George Megalogenis
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-14
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 62
- Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War
- Written by: James Brown
- Narrated by: James Brown
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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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 go to war? Where might we go to war in the future? Will we get that decision right?
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Quarterly Essay 62
- Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War
- Narrated by: James Brown
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-12
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within
- Written by: Don Watson
- Narrated by: Don Watson
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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In Essay 63, with characteristic wit and acuity, Don Watson takes us on a journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016. Plunging into the apparent chaos of the presidential campaign and tracing America's recent past, he puts Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Bernie Sanders in a larger frame. He considers the irresistible pull - for Americans - of American exceptionalism, and asks whether this creed is reaching its limit.
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Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within
- Narrated by: Don Watson
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2016-09-02
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream
- Written by: Stan Grant
- Narrated by: Stan Grant
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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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, intellectual and social - that we see today. Yet this flourishing coexists with the boys of Don Dale and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation.
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Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream
- Narrated by: Stan Grant
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2016-11-19
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen
- One Nation and the Politics of Race
- Written by: David Marr
- Narrated by: David Ross Paterson
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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David Marr has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Monthly, been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners, presenter of ABC TV's Media Watch and now writes for the Guardian. His books include Patrick White: A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson) and five Quarterly Essays: 'His Master's Voice', 'Power Trip', 'Political Animal', 'The Prince' and 'Faction Man'.
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Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen
- One Nation and the Politics of Race
- Narrated by: David Ross Paterson
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2017-03-27
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye
- Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock
- Written by: Anna Krien
- Narrated by: Danielle Carter
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. And the Coalition government is divided and paralysed. In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world.
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye
- Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock
- Narrated by: Danielle Carter
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-13
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101
- Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal
- Written by: Benjamin Law
- Narrated by: Benjamin Law
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Are Australian schools safe? And if they're not, what happens when kids are caught in a bleak collision between ill-equipped school staff and a confected media scandal? In 2016, the Safe Schools program became the centre of an ideological firestorm. In QE67, Benjamin Law explores how and why this happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping account of schools today, sexuality, teenagers, new ideas of gender fluidity, tabloid media scares and mental health.
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Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101
- Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal
- Narrated by: Benjamin Law
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2017-09-09
- Language: English
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