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QE95 - September 2024

On the US election

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QE94 - June 2024

On climate peril and paralysis

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QE93 - March 2024

Bad Cop

Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics

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QE92 - November 2023

The Great Divide

Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It

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QE91 - September 2023

Lifeboat

Disability, Humanity and the NDIS

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QE90 - June 2023

Voice of Reason

On Recognition and Renewal

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QE89 - March 2023

The Wires That Bind

Electrification and Community Renewal

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QE88 - November 2022

Lone Wolf

Albanese and the New Politics

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QE87 - September 2022

Uncivil Wars

How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy

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QE86 - June 2022

Sleepwalk to War

Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America

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QE85 - March 2022

Not Waving, Drowning

Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia

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QE84 - November 2021

The Reckoning

How #MeToo is Changing Australia

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QE83 - September 2021

Top Blokes

The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power

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QE82 - June 2021

Exit Strategy

Politics After the Pandemic

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QE81 - March 2021

Getting to Zero

Australia’s Energy Transition

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QE80 - November 2020

The High Road

What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand

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Cover of Quarterly Essay 79 by Katharine Murphy

QE79 - September 2020

The End of Certainty

Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics

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QE78 - June 2020

The Coal Curse

Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future

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QE77 - March 2020

Cry Me a River

The Tragedy of the Murray–Darling Basin

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QE76 - November 2019

Red Flag

Waking Up to China’s Challenge

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Cover of Quarterly Essay 75 by Annabel Crabb

QE75 - September 2019

Men at Work

Australia’s Parenthood Trap

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QE74 - June 2019

The Prosperity Gospel

How Scott Morrison won and Bill Shorten lost

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QE73 - March 2019

Australia Fair

Listening to the Nation

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QE72 - November 2018

Net Loss

The Inner Life in the Digital Age

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QE71 - September 2018

Follow the Leader

Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman

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QE70 - June 2018

Dead Right

How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next

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QE69 - March 2018

Moment of Truth

History and Australia’s Future

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QE68 - November 2017

Without America

Australia in the New Asia

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QE67 - September 2017

Moral Panic 101

Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal

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QE66 - June 2017

The Long Goodbye

Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock

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QE65 - March 2017

The White Queen

One Nation and the Politics of Race

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QE64 - November 2016

The Australian Dream

Blood, History and Becoming

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QE63 - September 2016

Enemy Within

American Politics in the Time of Trump

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QE62 - June 2016

Firing Line

Australia's Path to War

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QE61 - February 2016

Balancing Act

Australia Between Recession and Renewal

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QE60 - December 2015

Political Amnesia

How We Forgot How To Govern

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QE59 - September 2015

Faction Man

Bill Shorten's Path to Power

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QE58 - May 2015

Blood Year

Terror and the Islamic State

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QE57 - March 2015

Dear Life

On caring for the elderly

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QE56 - November 2014

Clivosaurus

The politics of Clive Palmer

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QE55 - September 2014

A Rightful Place

Race, recognition and a more complete commonwealth

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QE54 - June 2014

Dragon's Tail

The lucky country after the China boom

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QE53 - March 2014

That Sinking Feeling

Asylum seekers and the search for the Indonesian solution

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QE52 - November 2013

Found in Translation

In praise of a plural world

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QE51 - September 2013

The Prince

Faith, abuse and George Pell

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QE50 - June 2013

Unfinished Business

Sex, freedom and misogyny

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QE49 - March 2013

Not Dead Yet

Labor's post-Left future

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QE48 - November 2012

After the Future

Australia's new extinction crisis

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QE47 - September 2012

Political Animal

The making of Tony Abbott

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QE46 - June 2012

Great Expectations

Government, entitlement and an angry nation

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QE45 - March 2012

Us & Them

On the importance of animals

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QE44 - November 2011

Man-Made World

Choosing between progress and planet

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QE43 - September 2011

Bad News

Murdoch's Australian and the shaping of the nation

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QE42 - June 2011

Fair Share

Country and city in Australia

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QE41 - March 2011

The Happy Life

The search for contentment in the modern world

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QE40 - November 2010

Trivial Pursuit

Leadership and the end of the reform era

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QE39 - August 2010

Power Shift

Australia's future between Washington and Beijing

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QE38 - June 2010

Power Trip

The political journey of Kevin Rudd

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QE37 - March 2010

What's Right?

The future of conservatism in Australia

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QE36 - November 2009

Australian Story

Kevin Rudd and the lucky country

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QE35 - September 2009

Radical Hope

Education and equality for Australia

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QE34 - June 2009

Stop at Nothing

The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull

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QE33 - March 2009

Quarry Vision

Coal, climate change and the end of the resource boom

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QE32 - November 2008

American Revolution

The fall of Wall Street and the rise of Barack Obama

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QE31 - September 2008

Now or Never

A sustainable future for Australia?

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QE30 - June 2008

Last Drinks

The impact of the Northern Territory intervention

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QE29 - March 2008

Love and Money

The family and the free market

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QE28 - December 2007

Exit Right

The unravelling of John Howard

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QE27 - September 2007

Reaction Time

Climate change and the nuclear option

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QE26 - May 2007

His Master's Voice

The corruption of public debate under Howard

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QE25 - March 2007

Bipolar Nation

How to win the 2007 election

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QE24 - November 2006

No Fixed Address

Nomads and the fate of the planet

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QE23 - September 2006

The History Question

Who owns the past?

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QE22 - June 2006

Voting for Jesus

Christianity and politics in Australia

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QE21 - March 2006

What’s Left?

The death of social democracy

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QE20 - December 2005

A Time for War

Australia as a military power

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QE19 - August 2005

Relaxed & Comfortable

The Liberal Party's Australia

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QE18 - June 2005

The Worried Well

The depression epidemic and the medicalisation of our sorrows

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QE17 - March 2005

'Kangaroo Court'

Family law in Australia

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QE16 - December 2004

Breach of Trust

Truth, morality and politics

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QE15 - September 2004

Latham's World

The new politics of the outsiders

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QE14 - June 2004

Mission Impossible

The sheikhs, the U.S. and the future of Iraq

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QE13 - December 2003

Sending Them Home

Refugees and the new politics of indifference

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QE12 - November 2003

Made in England

Australia's British inheritance

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QE11 - August 2003

Whitefella Jump Up

The shortest way to nationhood

QE10 - June 2003

The cult of the CEO

QE9 - March 2003

Population and environment in Australia

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QE8 - November 2002

Groundswell

The rise of the Greens

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QE7 - September 2002

Paradise Betrayed

West Papua's struggle for independence

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QE6 - August 2002

Beyond Belief

What future for Labor?

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QE5 - March 2002

Girt By Sea

Australia, the refugees and the politics of fear

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QE4 - December 2001

Rabbit Syndrome

Australia and America

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QE3 - October 2001

The Opportunist

John Howard and the triumph of reaction

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QE2 - June 2001

Appeasing Jakarta

Australia's complicity in the East Timor tragedy

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QE1 - April 2001

In Denial

The stolen generations and the Right

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