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Telling Tennant's Story
- The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence
- By: Dean Ashenden
- Narrated by: Ant Neate
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of ‘relations between two racial groups within a single field of life’ has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. In a riveting combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history, Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian silence.
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Telling Tennant's Story
- The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence
- Narrated by: Ant Neate
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-06-22
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag
- Waking Up to China's Challenge
- By: Peter Hartcher
- Narrated by: Peter Hartcher
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows how Beijing stepped up its campaign for influence, over hearts and minds, mineral and agricultural resources, media outlets and sea lanes. Reactions have included panic, xenophobia and all-the-way-with-the-USA - but the challenge now is to think hard about the national interest and respond with wisdom to a changed world. This urgent, authoritative essay blends reporting and analysis, and covers the local scene as well as the larger geopolitical picture.
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Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag
- Waking Up to China's Challenge
- Narrated by: Peter Hartcher
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-11-19
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse
- Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future
- By: Judith Brett
- Narrated by: Judith Brett
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country - heavy on raw materials and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep’s back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG. So must we double down on fossil fuels, now that COVID-19 has halted the flow of international students and tourists? Or is there a better way forward, which supports renewable energy and local manufacturing?
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Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse
- Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future
- Narrated by: Judith Brett
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 22-06-20
- Language: English
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Black Lives, White Law
- Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia
- By: Russell Marks
- Narrated by: David Soncin
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more likely. Featuring vivid case studies and drawing on a deep sense of history, Black Lives, White Law explores Australia's extraordinary record of locking up First Nations people.
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Black Lives, White Law
- Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia
- Narrated by: David Soncin
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-01-23
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty
- By: Katharine Murphy
- Narrated by: Cymone Rose
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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Epidemics are mirrors. What has COVID-19 revealed about Australia and about Scott Morrison and his government? In this gripping essay, Katharine Murphy goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the response to the crisis. Drawing on interviews with Morrison, Brendan Murphy, Josh Frydenberg, Sally McManus and other players, she traces how the key health and economic decisions were taken.
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Quarterly Essay 79: The End of Certainty
- Narrated by: Cymone Rose
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 07-09-20
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right
- How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
- By: Richard Denniss
- Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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How did the banks run wild for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And how is it that arms manufacturers sponsor the Australian War Memorial? In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society.
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Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right
- How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
- Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-07-18
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 74: The Prosperity Gospel
- How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost
- By: Erik Jensen
- Narrated by: Erik Jensen
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
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In this dazzling report from the campaign trail, Erik Jensen homes in on the insecurities that drive Bill Shorten and the certainties that helped Scott Morrison win. He considers how each man reflects, challenges and comforts the national character. Who are Morrison’s 'quiet Australians'? What did Shorten Labor fail to see? And will fear always trump hope in politics? The Prosperity Gospel sheds new light on the politics of a divided nation.
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Quarterly Essay 74: The Prosperity Gospel
- How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost
- Narrated by: Erik Jensen
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-06-19
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop
- Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics
- By: Lech Blaine
- Narrated by: Angus McGruther
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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Who is Peter Dutton, and what happened to the Liberal Party? In Bad Cop, Lech Blaine traces the making of a hardman – from Queensland detective to leader of the Opposition, from property investor to minister for Home Affairs. This is a story of ambition, race and power, and a politician with a plan.
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Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop
- Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics
- Narrated by: Angus McGruther
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: English
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The Fatal Island
- Death and Power in Timor
- By: Paul Toohey
- Narrated by: Paul Toohey
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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By a Walkley Award-winning journalist, a gripping true crime-meets-political intrigue about East Timor, a place where animistic belief, witchcraft and tribal conflict ensure that truth and justice follow separate, uncertain paths. A president shot, a prime minister attacked, a rebel leader...
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The Fatal Island
- Death and Power in Timor
- Narrated by: Paul Toohey
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 27-07-26
- Language: English
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The Voice to Parliament Handbook
- All the Detail You Need
- By: Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
- Narrated by: Kerry O'Brien, Thomas Mayo
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo and acclaimed journalist Kerry O’Brien have written this handbook to answer the most commonly asked questions about why the Voice should be enshrined in the Constitution, and how it might function to improve policies affecting Indigenous communities, and genuinely close the gap on inequalities at the most basic level of human dignity.
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The Voice to Parliament Handbook
- All the Detail You Need
- Narrated by: Kerry O'Brien, Thomas Mayo
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 31-07-23
- Language: English
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Telling Tennant’s Story
- The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence
- By: Dean Ashenden
- Narrated by: Ant Neate
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In a riveting combination of memoir, reportage and political and intellectual history, Ashenden traces the strange career of the great Australian silence—from its beginnings in the first encounters of Black and white, through the work of the early anthropologists, the historians and the courts in landmark cases about land rights and the Stolen Generations, to still-continuing controversy.
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Telling Tennant’s Story
- The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence
- Narrated by: Ant Neate
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-06-22
- Language: English
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Red Zone
- China's Challenge and Australia's Future
- By: Peter Hartcher
- Narrated by: Peter Hartcher
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In this incisive audiobook, Peter Hartcher reveals how decades of economic dependence left Australia open to the strategic ambitions of the most successful authoritarian regime in modern history. He shows how ideology, paranoia and Xi Jinping’s personal story have reshaped China and shines new light on Beijing’s overt and covert campaign for influence - over trade and defence, media and politics.
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Red Zone
- China's Challenge and Australia's Future
- Narrated by: Peter Hartcher
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 22-01-22
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 82: Exit Strategy
- Politics After the Pandemic
- By: George Megalogenis
- Narrated by: George Megalogenis
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
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In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of social security and concern for the future? Between the fires and the plague, Scott Morrison had no choice but to adapt his style of leadership. But does he have an exit strategy for Australia from the pandemic? In this original essay, George Megalogenis explores the new politics of care and fear. He shows how our economic officials learnt the lessons of past recessions and applied them to new circumstances.
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Quarterly Essay 82: Exit Strategy
- Politics After the Pandemic
- Narrated by: George Megalogenis
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-06-21
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road
- What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand
- By: Laura Tingle
- Narrated by: Aimee Horne
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, economics, history and more. Competitiveness has marked our relationship from its earliest days. In the past half-century, both countries have remade themselves amid shifting economic fortunes. New Zealand has been held up as a model for everything from tax reform to the conduct of politics to the response to COVID-19. Tingle considers everything from Morrison and Ardern as national leaders to the different ways each country has dealt with its colonial legacy.
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Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road
- What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand
- Narrated by: Aimee Horne
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-11-20
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth
- History and Australia’s Future
- By: Mark McKenna
- Narrated by: Mike Bishop
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history wars and that truth-telling about the past will be liberating and healing. This is an urgent essay about a nation’s moment of truth.
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Quarterly Essay 69: Moment of Truth
- History and Australia’s Future
- Narrated by: Mike Bishop
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-05-18
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 68: Hugh White on Fading America and Rising China
- By: Hugh White
- Narrated by: Hugh White
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Our region is experiencing a momentous transition. The US-led order is fading, and China has become ever more powerful. Today the question we face is not whether we fancy living in an Asia in which power is shared between the United States and China. It is how we feel about living in an Asia in which America no longer plays any significant strategic role. In this controversial and gripping essay, Hugh White looks at what has happened to the US globally.
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Quarterly Essay 68: Hugh White on Fading America and Rising China
- Narrated by: Hugh White
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 30-11-17
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen
- One Nation and the Politics of Race
- By: David Marr
- Narrated by: David Ross Paterson
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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David Marr has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Monthly, been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners, presenter of ABC TV's Media Watch and now writes for the Guardian. His books include Patrick White: A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson) and five Quarterly Essays: 'His Master's Voice', 'Power Trip', 'Political Animal', 'The Prince' and 'Faction Man'.
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Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen
- One Nation and the Politics of Race
- Narrated by: David Ross Paterson
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 27-03-17
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 60
- Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
- By: Laura Tingle
- Narrated by: Vanessa Killen
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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What ever 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 the Internet age.
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Quarterly Essay 60
- Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
- Narrated by: Vanessa Killen
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-05-16
- Language: English
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Great Expectations
- Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
- By: Laura Tingle
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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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 grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive the federation. Through all of this, and back to our origins, runs an almost childlike sense of the government as saviour and provider.
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Great Expectations
- Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-07-12
- Language: English
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The Palace Letters
- The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam
- By: Jenny Hocking
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Under the cover of being designated as private correspondence, the letters between the queen and the governor-general about the dismissal have been locked away for decades in the National Archives of Australia, and embargoed by the queen - potentially forever. In the face of this, Professor Jenny Hocking embarked on a four-year legal battle to force the Archives to release the letters. In 2015, she mounted a crowd-funded campaign, securing a stellar pro bono team that took her case all the way to the High Court of Australia.
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The Palace Letters
- The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam
- Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 04-05-21
- Language: English
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