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  • Quarterly Essay 80 The High Road

    What Australia can learn from New Zealand

    de Laura Tingle ...
    Series Libro 80 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And now, in the wake of COVID-19, is it time to change that?In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, character and two nations in transition. In the past half-century, both countries have remade themselves amid shifting economic ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation

    Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation

    de Laura Tingle ...
    Series Libro 46 - Quarterly Essay
    Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the reason for this goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle finds, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime ... Leer más

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  • Follow the Leader

    Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman; Quarterly Essay 71

    de Laura Tingle ...
    Series Libro 71 - Quarterly Essay
    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 or turn politics into a popularity contest. They mobilise and guide, more than impose a vision. Tingle ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 60 Political Amnesia

    How We Forgot How To Govern

    de Laura Tingle ...
    Series Libro 60 - Quarterly Essay
    Whatever 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 ... Leer más

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    Great Expectations

    Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation

    de Laura Tingle ...
    Narrado por Louise Crawford ...
    Series Audiolibro 46 - Quarterly Essay

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    Rather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. 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 ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely

    Australia's Prime Ministers: From Barton to Albanese

    de Mungo MacCallum ...
    From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office days before Wall Street crashed into the Great Depression. John Curtin faced the ultimate ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 81 Getting to Zero

    Australia's Energy Transition

    de Alan Finkel ...
    Series Libro 81 - Quarterly Essay
    The world is overheating, and despite good intentions and significant efforts, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions.In this lucid, inspiring essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia’s path forward. He explains the solar and wind revolution, and addresses the challenge of intermittent supply. He introduces hydrogen, the energy hope of the future. He ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 72 Net Loss

    The Inner Life in the Digital Age

    de Sebastian Smee ...
    Series Libro 72 - Quarterly Essay
    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 and reflection. But today, with social media, wall-to-wall marketing and the agitation of modern life, ... Leer más

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  • Balancing Act

    Australia Between Recession and Renewal; Quarterly Essay 61

    de George Megalogenis ...
    Series Libro 61 - Quarterly Essay
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 58 Blood Year

    Terror and the Islamic State

    de David Kilcullen ...
    Series Libro 58 - Quarterly Essay
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 70 Dead Right

    How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next

    de Richard Denniss ...
    Series Libro 70 - Quarterly Essay
    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 decades, we have been led to believe that the private sector does everything better, that governments can’t ... Leer más

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  • Faction Man

    Bill Shorten's Path to Power: Quarterly Essay 59

    de David Marr ...
    Series Libro 59 - Quarterly Essay
    The top job is within Bill Shorten's grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country?In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party. Marr presents a man willing to deal ... Leer más

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