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Although a self-proclaimed conservative, Hirst s work has received high praise from historians ranging from Don Watson to Stuart Macinytre. This book collects key pieces on convict society, the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism, the republican movement and more.

Written with humour, urgency and great...

This is a collection of work by W.E.H. Stanner, one of Australia's finest essayists. A superb anthropologist, he was both perceptive and prophetic about the Aboriginal people he knew; yet his work has been out of print and astonishingly hard to find for many years. The revival of these essays, selected and introduced by Robert Manne, is a significant event.

'John Hirst is the gadfly of Australian history, stinging and provocative' – STUART MACINTRYE

'essential reading for those who want to ponder, let alone write and teach about, Australian history' – ROBERT MURRAY, The Weekend Australian

This is the first substantial book to explore what the global financial crisis means for Australia.  It looks past 'neo-liberalism' and 'economic rationalism' and asks what kind of social democracy we might hope for in the future.  Are the heady days of deregulation and privatisation over?  If so, where to from here?

In the 2010 federal election, independent candidate Andrew Wilkie grabbed headlines after winning the seat of Denison, and with it a key role in deciding who would form the next government of Australia.Before he was a politician, however, Wilkie was Australia's most talked-about whistleblower.

As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne.

In Making Trouble , Australia's leading public intellectual takes aim at the 'new Australian complacency'.

This is a book that will enlighten and provoke. It covers much ground – from Howard to Gillard by way of Rudd, from Victoria's bushfires to the Apology, from Wilfred Burchett to Primo...

Shaun Gladwell: Stereo Sequences has been conceived and created for ACMI's unique subterranean gallery and features a series of multi-screen video works that explore concepts of duality, parallels and mirroring.

As the 2010 federal election approaches, who better than Mungo MacCallum to guide us through the sweat and semantics of the campaign trail?

This typically fast-paced, witty and perceptive account follows Canberra's finest in action, peddling furiously between news cycles and racing from the pulpit to the mines in an effort to win over an increasingly sceptical electorate.

In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?

An intimate and intrepid journey into the forest wars.

For decades, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of bitter struggle. Sawmillers and police face off with protestors deep in the forest, while political games are played in the courts and parliaments. At stake is the future of old-growth forests, of the logging industry - and of the people on both sides, deeply divided years of suspicion...

Dorothy Porter writes about love, sex, heartbreak and desire like no one else. Love Poems collects her most powerful love poetry: portraits of longing and infatuation, of bliss, passion, uncertainty and devotion. It includes extracts from her award-winning and best-selling verse novels, as well as poems and lyrics spanning her whole career.

' The Best Australian Poems 2010 vibrates with correspondences. The images in some poems are reflected in others … until the individual poems begin to read like stanzas in some epic story of this country.'—Robert Adamson

Selected by one of Australia's most acclaimed poets, this inspired collection captures the richness and scope of present-day Australian verse. It features innovative and...

In the last Quarterly Essay for 2010, George Megalogenis considers Australia's political dead zone.  The Hawke, Keating and early Howard years were ones of bold reform; recently we have seen an era of power without purpose.  But why?  Is it down to powerful lobbies, or the media, or a failure of leadership, or all the above?  And whatever the case, how will hard decisions be taken...

A special boxset of The Best Australian Stories 2010, The Best Australian Essays 2010 and The Best Australian  Poems 2010 .

They have no graves, no markers of ever having existed.  The millions of people murdered by the Nazis live on only in memories of the survivors.  In his seventy-ninth year, Andor Schwartz was driven to record the lives of his family and friends who perished.