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Faction Man
Faction Man

Reviews

Faction Man

By Jacqui Brauman|2019-02-10T21:57:24+11:00February 10th, 2019|Reviews|

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 [...]

Net Loss
Net Loss

Reviews

Net Loss

By Jacqui Brauman|2019-01-05T17:33:07+11:00January 5th, 2019|Reviews|

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 [...]

Dear Santa
Dear Santa

Feature, Reviews

Dear Santa

By Jacqui Brauman|2018-12-08T12:29:14+11:00December 8th, 2018|Feature, Reviews|

I hadn’t heard of this project until I was given this book for Christmas by a colleague - Dear Santa by Samuel Johnson. He apparently appealed to a whole bunch [...]

Follow the Leader
Follow the Leader

Reviews

Follow the Leader

By Jacqui Brauman|2018-10-28T12:00:51+11:00October 28th, 2018|Reviews|

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 [...]

Dead Right
Dead Right

Feature, Reviews

Dead Right

By Jacqui Brauman|2018-10-07T10:13:11+11:00September 23rd, 2018|Feature, Reviews|

This quarter’s Quarterly Essay is Dead Right by Richard Denniss. I have seen Richard Denniss speak - an economist fighting for women’s issues - and I was really eager to [...]

Cicada
Cicada

Reviews

Cicada

By Jacqui Brauman|2018-10-07T10:06:22+11:00September 16th, 2018|Reviews|

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 [...]

Moment of Truth
Moment of Truth

Mindset, Reviews

Moment of Truth

By Jacqui Brauman|2018-10-07T12:32:17+11:00August 3rd, 2018|Mindset, Reviews|

Over the last week or so, I have read Mark McKenna’s Quarterly Essay: ‘Moment of Truth; History and Australia’s Future’. The reading produced a moment of truth for me! And [...]

Moral Panic
Moral Panic

Gender, Reviews

Moral Panic

By Jacqui Brauman|2018-10-28T12:07:09+11:00July 17th, 2018|Gender, Reviews|

I recently read Benjamin Law’s essay, Moral Panic 101, in the Quarterly Essay. It had me thinking about all the places I had been hearing about ‘moral panic’ lately, and [...]

Portia
Portia

Gender, Reviews

Portia

By Jacqui Brauman|2018-09-26T13:26:34+10:00July 7th, 2018|Gender, Reviews|

With all the material that I have to read, it took a while for me to get to the publication put out by the Victorian Women Lawyers’ group. There were [...]