The latest Quarterly Essay is by Erik Jensen, and entitled “The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison won and Bill Shorten lost”. It’s not an argumentative essay - it’s an essay [...]

I bought Accidental Feminists after hearing Jane Caro speak on The Garrett podcast. I wanted to hear from a real feminist. Someone who is in my mum’s generation and has [...]

The most recent Quarterly Essay - Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley - is fantastic! Rebecca doesn’t take a controversial stance, but makes a political point based [...]

With a federal election looming in the first half of 2019, there seems little choice but for the national politics to swing back around to have a Labour government. The [...]

This quarter’s Quarterly Essay was by Sebastian Smee - Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age - about how the digital age, particularly social media, is changing how we [...]

This quarter, the latest Quarterly Essay was another political piece - Follow the Leader by Laura Tingle - ‘democracy and the rise of the strongman’. After reading this, I have [...]

I bought and read Cicada by Shaun Tan after listening to an interview with him on The Garrett podcast. I had seen one of the images of cicada, but I [...]