# Quarterly Essay

Quarterly Essay, founded in 2001, is an Australian periodical published by Black Inc., concentrating primarily on Australian politics in a broad sense. Printed in a book-like page size and using a single-column format, each issue features a single extended essay of at least 20,000 words, with an introduction by the editor, and correspondence relating to essays in previous issues.
In early 2004 founding editor Peter Craven was sacked by the magazine's owner, property developer Morry Schwartz, over a dispute about the joint authorship of one essay, and, more widely, the magazine's future direction. Schwartz stated that while he had a vision of the magazine as more "political and Australian" whereas Craven was perhaps "more broad and internationalist".

## Editions

| # | Author | Title | Published | Notes |
| 1 | Robert Manne | "In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right" | April 2001 | |
| 2 | John Birmingham | "Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's complicity in the East Timor tragedy" | June 2001 | |
| 3 | Guy Rundle | "The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction" | October 2001 | |
| 4 | Don Watson | "Rabbit syndrome: Australia and America" | December 2001 | |
| 5 | Mungo MacCallum | "Girt by Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear" | March 2002 | |
| 6 | John Button | "Beyond belief: What future for Labor?" | August 2002 | |
| 7 | John Martinkus | "Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence" | September 2002 | |
| 8 | Amanda Lohrey | "Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens" | November 2002 | |
| 9 | Tim Flannery | "Beautiful Lies: Population & Environment in Australia" | March 2003 | Review by Sue Bond, API Network |
| 10 | Gideon Haigh | "Bad Company: The cult of the CEO" | June 2003 | |
| 11 | Germaine Greer | "Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood" | August 2003 | Interview with ABC TV presenter Andrew Denton Review by Mitchell Rolls, API Network |
| 12 | David Malouf | "Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance" | November 2003 | |
| 13 | Robert Manne with David Corlett | "Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference." | December 2003 | |
| 14 | Paul McGeough | "Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the US and the future of Iraq" | June 2004 | |
| 15 | Margaret Simons | "Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders" | September 2004 | |
| 16 | Raimond Gaita | "Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics" | December 2004 | Review – Quarterly Essay 16: Matilda by larrikin |
| 17 | John Hirst | "Kangaroo Court: Family Law in Australia" | March 2005 | |
| 18 | Gail Bell | "The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows" | June 2005 | Interview with ABC presenter Eleanor Hall Interview with ABC presenter Richard Aedy Review by Patrick Cullen in The Program Response by Gordon Parker, Black Dog Institute |
| 19 | Judith Brett | "Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia" | August 2005 | |
| 20 | John Birmingham | "A Time for War: Australia as a Military Power" | December 2005 | |
| 21 | Clive Hamilton | "What's Left? The Death of Social Democracy" | March 2006 | |
| 22 | Amanda Lohrey | "Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia" | June 2006 | |
| 23 | Inga Clendinnen | "The History Question: Who Owns The Past?" | September 2006 | Interview with ABC presenter Phillip Adams Interview with ABC presenter Paul Barclay |
| 24 | Robyn Davidson | "No Fixed Address: Nomads and the Fate of the Planet" | November 2006 | Review by Arthur Lucas, University of East Anglia |
| 25 | Peter Hartcher | "Bipolar Nation: How To Win The 2007 Election" | March 2007 | |
| 26 | David Marr | "His Master's Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate under Howard " | May 2007 | Public debate, with ABC presenter Phillip Adams Review – His Master's Voice |
| 27 | Ian Lowe | "Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option" | September 2007 | |
| 28 | Judith Brett | "Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard" | December 2007 | |
| 29 | Anne Manne | "Love and Money: The Family and the Free Market" | March 2008 | |
| 30 | Paul Toohey | "Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention" | June 2008 | |
| 31 | Tim Flannery | "Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?" | September 2008 | |
| 32 | Kate Jennings | "American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama" | November 2008 | |
| 33 | Guy Pearse | "Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom" | March 2009 | |
| 34 | Annabel Crabb | "Stop At Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull" | June 2009 | |
| 35 | Noel Pearson | "Radical Hope: Education and Equality in Australia" | September 2009 | |
| 36 | Mungo MacCallum | "Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country" | November 2009 | |
| 37 | Waleed Aly | "What's Right? The Future of Conservatism in Australia" | March 2010 | |
| 38 | David Marr | Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd | June 2010 | |
| 39 | Hugh White | "Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing" | August 2010 | |
| 40 | George Megalogenis | "Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era" | November 2010 | |
| 41 | David Malouf | "The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World" | March 2011 | |
| 42 | Judith Brett | "Fair Share: Country and City in Australia" | June 2011 | |
| 43 | Robert Manne | "Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the shaping of the nation" | September 2011 | |
| 44 | Andrew Charlton | "Man-Made World: Choosing between progress and planet" | November 2011 | |
| 45 | Anna Krien | "Us & Them: On the Importance of Animals" | March 2012 | |
| 46 | Laura Tingle | "Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation" | June 2012 | |
| 47 | David Marr | "Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott" | September 2012 | |
| 48 | Tim Flannery | "After the Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis" | November 2012 | |
| 49 | Mark Latham | "Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future" | March 2013 | |
| 50 | Anna Goldsworthy | "Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny" | June 2013 | |
| 51 | David Marr | "The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell" | September 2013 | |
| 52 | Linda Jaivin | "Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World" | November 2013 | |
| 53 | Paul Toohey | "That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution" | March 2014 | |
| 54 | Andrew Charlton | "Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country After the China Boom" | June 2014 | |
| 55 | Noel Pearson | "A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth" | September 2014 | |
| 56 | Guy Rundle | "Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer" | November 2014 | |
| 57 | Karen Hitchcock | "Dear Life: On caring for the elderly" | March 2015 | |
| 58 | David Kilcullen | "Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State" | May 2015 | |
| 59 | David Marr | "Faction Man: Bill Shorten's path to power" | September 2015 | |
| 60 | Laura Tingle | "Political Amnesia: How We Forgot to Govern" | December 2015 | |
| 61 | George Megalogenis | "Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal" | February 2016 | |
| 62 | James Brown | "Firing Line: Australia's Path to War" | June 2016 | |
| 63 | Don Watson | "Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump" | September 2016 | |
| 64 | Stan Grant | "The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming" | November 2016 | |
| 65 | David Marr | "The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race" | March 2017 | |
| 66 | Anna Krien | "The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock" | June 2017 | |
| 67 | Benjamin Law | "Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal" | September 2017 | |
| 68 | Hugh White | "Without America: Australia in the New Asia" | November 2017 | |
| 69 | Mark McKenna | "Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future" | March 2018 | |
| 70 | Richard Denniss | "Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next" | June 2018 | |
| 71 | Laura Tingle | "Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman" | September 2018 | |
| 72 | Sebastian Smee | "Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age" | November 2018 | |
| 73 | Rebecca Huntley | "Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation" | March 2019 | |
| 74 | Erik Jensen | "The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost" | June 2019 | |
| 75 | Annabel Crabb | "Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap" | September 2019 | |
| 76 | Peter Hartcher | "Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge" | November 2019 | |
| 77 | Margaret Simons | "Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray–Darling Basin" | March 2020 | |
| 78 | Judith Brett | "The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future" | June 2020 | |
| 79 | Katharine Murphy | "The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics" | September 2020 | |
| 80 | Laura Tingle | "The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand" | November 2020 | |
| 81 | Alan Finkel | "Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition" | March 2021 | |
| 82 | George Megalogenis | "Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic" | June 2021 | |
| 83 | Lech Blaine | "Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power" | September 2021 | |
| 84 | Jess Hill | "The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia" | November 2021 | |
| 85 | Sarah Krasnostein | "Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia" | March 2022 | |
| 86 | Hugh White | "Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America" | June 2022 | |
| 87 | Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens | "Uncivil Wars: How Contempt is Corroding Democracy" | September 2022 | |
| 88 | Katharine Murphy | "Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics" | November 2022 | |
| 89 | Saul Griffith | "The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal" | March 2023 | |
| 90 | Megan Davis | "Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal" | June 2023 | |
| 91 | Micheline Lee | "Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS" | September 2023 | |
| 92 | Alan Kohler | "The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It" | November 2023 | |
| 93 | Lech Blaine | "Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics" | March 2024 | |
| 94 | Joelle Gergis | "Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future" | June 2024 | |
| 95 | Don Watson | "High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink" | September 2024 | |
| 96 | George Megalogenis | "Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics" | November 2024 | |