Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
Category: Essays
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
Category: Essays
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
Category: Essays
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic by Carody Culver (Editor)
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Whether it’s man’s best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We’re happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion’s share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in the room or try not to open a can of worms. Anima ...Show more
Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
Category: Essays | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
On Kim Scott : Writers on Writers by Tony Birch
Category: Essays
'I value Kim Scott's fiction so highly because I feel that his approach is to put the flags aside. That Deadman Dance asks us not to consider who we were so much as who we could be, collectively, in the future.'Noongar writer Kim Scott has won the Miles Franklin Award twice for his novels. In this movin ...Show more
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay #93) by Lech Blaine
Category: Essays
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
Griffith Review 80 Creation Stories by Culver Carody
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The capacity to tell stories — along with language and the ability to create art — is seen as both intrinsic and unique to the human species. Over thousands of years, we’ve forged narratives of our origins, our journeys and our dreams as a means of accounting for who we are and to define our place in th ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal by Megan Davis
Category: Essays
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of Australia. This essential Quarterly Essay seeks to do two things: to make the strongest, clearest possible case for the Voice to Parliament and to draw out the significance and the promise of this reform - ...Show more
Gladys: A Leader's Undoing by Paul Farrell
Category: Essays | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Gladys Berejiklian was one of Australia's most popular premiers. Forging a path for New South Wales through the difficult early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she seemed unstoppable. But it all came crashing down. In one of the most staggering falls from grace in Australian political history, Berejiklia ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
Category: Essays
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
Australia on the Brink: Avoiding Environmental Ruin by Ian Lowe
Category: Essays | 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