Quarterly Essay 88: Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics by Katharine Murphy
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A portrait of a leader in the making, and a nation on the move. In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion - a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation. Are Albanese and his party up for change? Are Australians u ...Show more
HEAT Series 3 Number 8
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Category: Magazines | Series: Heat Ser.
First published in 1996, HEAT is a literary magazine dedicated to publishing essays, stories, and poetry by Australian and overseas writers of the highest quality. Recent contributors include Eda Gunaydin, Noémi Lefebvre, Gareth Morgan, Jenny Erpenbeck, Oliver Driscoll, Mary Jean Chan, Amitava Kumar, Fi ...Show more
The World We Once Lived In by Wangari Maathai
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From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, these lucid, incisive writings explore the sacred power of trees, and why humans lay waste to the forests that keep us alive.
Man's War Against Nature (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Rachel Carson
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Here, with the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, she reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.
Granta 164: Last Notes by Sigrid Rausing
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Granta's summer issue will be themed around sound, music, silence and war. From established voices to debut novelists, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new writing from around the world. Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans ...Show more
There Is No Point of No Return by Arne Næss
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of his writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature.
Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics by Jo Dyer
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Morrison government’s moral decline happened first slowly and then all at once. We suffered through ‘Sports rorts’ and ‘Watergate’ and an MIA PM, before the dissembling response to allegations of sexual abuse at the very heart of federal politics threw into stark relief the cynicism and moral bankru ...Show more
Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency by Gareth Evans
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why should we in Australia, or any country, care about poverty, human rights atrocities, health epidemics, environmental catastrophes, weapons proliferation or any other problems afflicting faraway countries, when they don’t, as is often the case, have any direct or immediate impact on our own safety or ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia by Sarah Krasnostein
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How can we mend Australia's broken mental health system? Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done? In this brilli ...Show more
Australia on the Brink: Avoiding Environmental Ruin by Ian Lowe
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australia’s environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all getting worse, each calling for immediate action to protect our future. The 2021 report determine ...Show more
Critic Swallows Book: Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books by Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor)
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In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these ten years the SRB has cleared a unique space for serious reflection on literature and for critical thinking about o ...Show more