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    • The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
    • By: Lech Blaine
    • Narrated by: Nick John
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • In this perceptive and often hilarious essay, Lech Blaine dissects some top blokes, with particular focus on Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese, but stretching back to Bob Hawke and Kerry Packer....

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    • Albanese and the New Politics
    • By: Katharine Murphy
    • Narrated by: Ailsa Piper
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • In this perceptive, compelling essay, Katharine Murphy offers a profile of Anthony Albanese in motion – a piece about character, the balance of forces, and the mood of the nation....

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    • Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America
    • By: Hugh White
    • Narrated by: Hugh White
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • In this gripping essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back America to the hilt and oppose China. What led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? Is this a case of sleepwalking to war? What tests might a new government face....

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    • What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand
    • By: Laura Tingle
    • Narrated by: Aimee Horne
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, economics, history and more....

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    • Politics After the Pandemic
    • By: George Megalogenis
    • Narrated by: George Megalogenis
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • 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....

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    • How #MeToo Is Changing Australia
    • By: Jess Hill
    • Narrated by: Jess Hill
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • In 2021, Australia saw rage and revelation as #MeToo powered an insurgency against sexism and sexual violence. From once isolated survivors to political staffers, women everywhere were refusing to keep men’s secrets....

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    • On Recognition and Renewal
    • By: Megan Davis
    • Narrated by: Megan Davis
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 27-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • At Uluru, an invitation was issued to the Australian people. With the upcoming referendum, the nation will decide whether to accept that invitation....

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    • 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
    • By: Peter Singer
    • Narrated by: James Saunders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia....

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    • Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia
    • By: Sarah Krasnostein
    • Narrated by: Sarah Krasnostein
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Mental illness is the great isolator - and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects everybody in one way or another. Yet today, Australia’s mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose....

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    • By: Emma Goldman
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman....

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    • By: John Green
    • Narrated by: John Green
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 452 ratings
    • A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from number-one best-selling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast....

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    • By: Samuel Smiles
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 13-01-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Self Help was published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism"....

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    • By: Susan Sontag
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions....

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    • By: Sebastian Smee
    • Narrated by: Marcello Fabrizi
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 20-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Throughout history, artists and philosophers have cultivated the deep self and seen value in solitude and reflection. But today, through social media, wall-to-wall marketing, reality television and the agitation of modern life, everything feels illuminated, made transparent....

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    • By: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 280 ratings
    • The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise....

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