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Quarterly Essay 12 Made in England

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825111
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 12 Made in England written by David Malouf and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system, as the irreducible ground on which any Australian achievement is based. Britain has always been the tolerant parent, and an older Australia could be both intensely patriotic and see itself as what it was, a transplantation of Britain. This relationship did not exclude America but it made for a sometimes complicated threesome of nations. This is 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. ‘Any argument for [the republic] based on the need to make a final break with Britain will fail.’ —David Malouf, Made in England ‘Made in England is ... a case of one of Australia's most eminent novelists allowing himself to imagine, and by imagining to analyse, the hopes and glories, once and future, that were part of this new Britannia.’ —Peter Craven ‘[An] infinitely rich account of Australian history, speech and social ways ... a deft and instructive rebuttal of any reductive, self-interested assertions about identity and nationality.’ —Morag Fraser, Australian Book Review ‘David Malouf is that old fashioned phenomenon, a cultivated man.’ —Gerard Windsor ‘The essay has all the qualities we’d expect from the author – sensuous memory, intelligence, elegance, and a bit of a Shakespeherian rag.’ —Overland David Malouf is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. He is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. In 2000 he was selected as the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate. His most recent novel is Ransom.

Quarterly Essay 26 His Master's Voice

Author : David Marr
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145879864X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 26 His Master's Voice written by David Marr and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Howard has the loudest voice in Australia. He has cowed his critics, muffled the press, intimidated the ABC, gagged scientists, silenced NGOs, censored the arts, prosecuted leakers, criminalised protest and curtailed parliamentary scrutiny. Though touted as a contest of values, this has been a party - political assault on Australia's liberal culture. In the name of ''''''''balance'''''''', the Liberal Party has muscled its way into the intellectual life of the country. And this has happened because we let it happen. Once again, Howard has shown his superb grasp of Australia as it really is. 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. ''''''''More than any law, any failure of the Opposition or individual act of bastardry over the last decade, what's done most to gag democracy in this country is the sense that debating John Howard gets us nowhere.'''''''' - David Marr, His Master's Voice.

Australia's Empire

Author : Deryck Marshall Schreuder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199273731
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Australia's Empire written by Deryck Marshall Schreuder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.

Panic

Author : David Marr
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863956123
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Panic written by David Marr and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of fear. Cronulla. Henson. Hanson. Wik. Haneef. The boats.

Australia and the Wider World

Author : Neville Meaney
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743320264
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Australia and the Wider World written by Neville Meaney and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s Neville Meaney has been asking probing questions about social change and the rise of nationalism, especially as found in the making of Australia's self-image and its engagement with the world. His efforts to unravel what he once called 'the riddle of Australian nationalism' have raised important, and often unsettling, challenges for Australians. Bringing together the cultural, intellectual, political and diplomatic dimensions of the national experience, Meaney's work has been dominated by two overarching and interconnected questions: how Australians should resolve the tension between the 'community of culture' and the 'community of interest' and how they should reconcile their British heritage with their Asian moorings?

Quarterly Essay 16 Breach of Trust

Author : Raimond Gaita
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825154
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 16 Breach of Trust written by Raimond Gaita and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2004, Raimond Gaita confronts essential questions about politics as it is practised today. What do politicians mean when they talk about "trust"? Why is truthfulness important? Are we as politically and morally divided as the Americans? Does the war on terror authorise leaders to do things that once were considered beyond the pale? Gaita argues for a conception of politics in which morality is not an optional extra. He discusses why successful politicians must at times be economical with the truth, but shows a way beyond cynicism on the one hand and moralising on the other. Politics, he says, is conceivably a noble vocation, as well as potentially a tragic one. He looks closely at patriotism and its distortions, and the temptation to betray our deepest values in the act of protecting ourselves. Combining gentle evocation with gloves-off argument, Breach of Trust is a clarion call from one of Australia's leading thinkers. "I have never met anyone who believes that politicians should never lie ... But of course there are limits. They are not set in the heavens, but in culture." —Raimond Gaita, Breach Of Trust

Quarterly Essay 21 What's Left?

Author : Clive Hamilton
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825200
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 21 What's Left? written by Clive Hamilton and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first Quarterly Essay of 2006, Clive Hamilton throws out a 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? According to Hamilton, Labor and the Left must acknowledge that the social democracy of old – with its strong unions, public ownership of assets and distinct social classes – is dead. Prosperity, more than poverty, is the dominant characteristic of Australia today. Given this, should governments confine themselves to stoking the fires of the economy and protecting the interests of wealth creators? Or is there room for a political program that embodies new ideals but can also withstand economic scare tactics? This is an original and provocative account of our present political juncture by a man of the Left who accuses the Left of irrelevance. Any new progressive politics, Hamilton argues, will need to tap into the anxieties and aspirations of the nation, find new ways to talk about morality, and thereby address deeper human needs. “The Australian Labor Party has served its historical purpose and will wither and die as the progressive force of Australian politics.” —Clive Hamilton, What's Left?

Quarterly Essay 14 Mission Impossible

Author : Paul McGeough
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825138
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 14 Mission Impossible written by Paul McGeough and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second Quarterly Essay of 2004, Paul McGeough offers a dramatic account of why Iraq remains in chaos despite desperate American efforts to create a model democracy in the Middle East. According to McGeough, Iraq to this day remains a tribal society. It cannot be governed without the cooperation of the true powers in the land, the tribal and religious sheikhs. Those who have ruled Iraq in the past, including Saddam Hussein and the British before him, understood this fact. The Americans, by contrast, seem to have missed the point. In Mission Impossible, Paul McGeough enters the world of key Iraqi tribal and religious leaders. There are vivid portraits of the sheikhs' role in the fall and capture of Saddam, as well as their part in the growing insurgency. There are glimpses, too, of a history that once involved Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell, and which pre-dates Islam, stretching back thousands of years. Combining reportage and analysis in brilliant fashion, this groundbreaking essay is well timed to coincide with the next major phase in Iraq's troubled history. "Throughout the history of their region, the sheikhs have been the powerbrokers, deciding who would reign between the great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates." —Paul McGeough, Mission Impossible

An English Tradition?

Author : Jonathan Duke-Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192676296
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book An English Tradition? written by Jonathan Duke-Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or alternatively an English, characteristic at all - and if so, whether fair play still matters today? In An English Tradition?, Jonathan Duke-Evans explores the origins of the idea of fair play, tracing it back to the classical world and the Dark Ages, and finding its genesis deep within England's social structure. Charting its early development through both the tales of chivalry and the stories of popular legend, the book shows how fair play manifested itself in literature, the law, the Christian religion, and the family. It examines the way in which fair play was conceived during the ages of slavery and empire, and it proposes a new account of the birth of modern sport in the encounter between age-old popular games and the Victorian cult of amateurism. Taking in the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh manifestations of fair play, Duke-Evans offers contrasts and comparisons from cultures all around the world, and suggests new perspectives on the relevance of fair play in the twenty-first century.

English

Author : Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195174748
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book English written by Anna Wierzbicka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that rather than denying the existence and continued relevance of the cultural 'baggage' embedded in English ('Anglo' English), it is important to explore the contents of that baggage - important for practical, as well as intellectual, reasons.

Quarterly Essay 58 Blood Year

Author : David Kilcullen
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1925203263
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 58 Blood Year written by David Kilcullen and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This is a vivid, urgent account of the War on Terror by someone who helped shape its strategy, as well as witnessing its evolution on the ground. Kilcullen looks to strategy and history to make sense of the crisis. What are the roots and causes of the global jihad movement? What is ISIS? What threats does it pose to Australia? What does its rise say about the effectiveness of the War on Terror since 9/11, and what does a coherent strategy look like after a disastrous year? “As things stand in mid-2015, Western countries . . . face a larger, more unified, capable, experienced and savage enemy, in a less stable, more fragmented region. It isn’t just ISIS – al-Qaeda has emerged from its eclipse and is back in the game in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Syria and Yemen. We’re dealing with not one, but two global terrorist organisations, each with its own regional branches, plus a vastly larger radicalised population at home and a massive flow of foreign fighters.” —David Kilcullen, Blood Year Winner of the 2015 Walkley Award for best long feature writing.

Australian Cinema After Mabo

Author : Felicity Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521834803
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Australian Cinema After Mabo written by Felicity Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Australian Literature

Author : Associate Professor Department of English Graham Huggan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199229678
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Australian Literature written by Associate Professor Department of English Graham Huggan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Huggan presents a revisionist account of the history of Australian literature, in which contemporary ideas taken from postcolonial criticism and critical race theory are used to inform fresh readings of this outstanding and sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers belong just as unmistakably to the wider world.

Quarterly Essay 62 Firing Line

Author : James Brown
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1925435016
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 62 Firing Line written by James Brown and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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? In this vivid, urgent essay, James Brown looks to history, strategy and his own experience to explore these questions. He examines the legacy of the Iraq War and argues that it has prevented a clear view of Australia’s future conflicts. He looks at how we plug into the US war machine, now that American troops are based in Darwin. And he sheds fascinating light on the extraordinary concentration of war powers in the hands of the Prime Minister – and how this might go wrong. This powerful essay argues that we have not yet begun to think through the choices that may confront us in years ahead. ‘When you live in a country like ours, the dirty business of war is a stranger. That is the blessed legacy of a place where soldiers are rarely seen, and then only on parade. Where war means Anzac Day, and Anzac Days are all the same. There are few moments in modern Australia when you might pause to ask the most consequential of questions . . . What is it that we are willing to fight for?’ —James Brown, Firing Line ‘[James Brown] is a fine writer, clear and persuasive and capable of adroit tactical moves.’ —Weekend Australian ‘Brown’s survey of this complicated landscape yields some striking phrases and arresting moments. He is a natural and precise writer with a vivid sense of place.’ —Australian Book Review

Quarterly Essay 25 Bipolar Nation

Author : Peter Hartcher
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825243
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 25 Bipolar Nation written by Peter Hartcher and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bipolar Nation, Peter Hartcher discusses the fantasies and realities at the heart of our politics. When our political leaders look at us, what do they see? What are the hopes, fears and dreams of the Australian electorate, and how might they be turned to election winning advantage? What, most fundamentally, do we want in a prime minister? In this scintillating and original essay, Peter Hartcher investigates today's “bipolar nation”, where Australians are more economically secure, yet existentially as anxious as ever. He explains how the Lucky Country and the Frightened Country will be the two grand themes of the election year, and discusses how John Howard will set out to craft an election winning strategy on that basis. He revisits Donald Horne's Lucky Country, looks at the legacy of Paul Keating, and analyses Kevin Rudd's many layered effort to out-manoeuvre the Prime Minister. ‘The Lucky Country finally started to make its own luck, and Howard has taken out a political monopoly on it. The Frightened Country still harbours dark anxieties, some old and some new. Howard, the necromancer of our national psyche, conjures our fears to frighten us, and then offers to banish them again to soothe us. He understands the Bipolar Nation.’ —Peter Hartcher, ipolar Nation ‘Hartcher tells us in his essay Bipolar Nation that Howard is playing the 2007 election like a shrewd game of bridge. Labor can put down as many policy aces as it likes between now and polling day, but if Howard wins in the end it will be because he holds all the trump cards.’ —Andrew Charlton ‘Peter Hartcher's essay is as elegant and erudite as its author.’ —Bill Bowtell Peter Hartcher is the political editor and international editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. He has won both the Gold Walkley award for journalism and the Citibank award for business reporting. His books include Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars and To the Bitter End: the Dramatic Story Behind the Fall of John Howard and the Rise of Kevin Rudd.

Quarterly Essay 71 Follow the Leader

Author : Laura Tingle
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743820593
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 71 Follow the Leader written by Laura Tingle and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 offers acute portraits – profiles in courage and cunning – of leaders ranging from Merkel and Howard to Macron and Obama. She discusses the rise of the strongman, including Donald Trump, for whom there is no map, only sentiment and power. And she analyses what has gone wrong with politics in Australia, arguing that successful leaders know what they want to do, and create the space and time to do it. After the Liberal Party’s recent episode of political madness, where does this leave the nation’s new prime minister, Scott Morrison? “The Liberal Party has been ripped apart and our polity is the worse off for having one of its major political parties rendered largely ungovernable ... Malcolm Turnbull’s fate came down to a series of judgements made not just by him, but by his colleagues, who spent much of his prime ministership failing to follow the leader and also failing in their own collective responsibility for leadership.” —Laura Tingle, Follow the Leader

Quarterly Essay 70 Dead Right

Author : Richard Denniss
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 174382050X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 70 Dead Right written by Richard Denniss and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 afford to provide the high-quality services they once did, but that security and prosperity for all are just around the corner. In fact, Australians are now less equal, millions of workers have no sick leave or paid holidays, and housing is unaffordable for many. Deregulation, privatisation and trickle-down economics have, we are told, delivered us twenty-seven years of growth ... but to what end? In Dead Right, Denniss looks at ways to renew our democracy and discusses everything from the fragmenting Coalition to an idea of the national interest that goes beyond economics. ‘Neoliberalism, the catch-all term for all things small government, has been the ideal cloak behind which to conceal enormous shifts in Australia’s wealth and culture ... Over the past thirty years, the language, ideas and policies of neoliberalism have transformed our economy and, more importantly, our culture’ —Richard Denniss, Dead Right