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Richard Flanagan
The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan’s perceptive, hilarious, searing expose of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson…
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Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomads. In this fascinating and moving essay she evokes a vanishing way of life, and notes a paradox: that…
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow is ‘no mere essay. It is an existential prayer,’ writes Noel Pearson. Galarrwuy Yunupingu tells of his early life, his dealings with prime ministers, and how…
Anna Krien
In Booze Territory, Anna Krien takes a clear-eyed look at Indigenous binge-drinking - who does it, why, and what it means. She visits bars brimming with morning drinkers and investigates…
David Malouf
In the century since the Gallipoli landing, Anzac Day has taken on a different tenor for each succeeding generation. Perceptively and evocatively, David Malouf traces the meaning of this ‘one…
Robert Manne
This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange’s unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk…
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Karen Hitchcock
In Fat City, Karen Hitchcock unpicks the idea of obesity as a disease. In a riveting blend of story and analysis, she explores chemistry, psychology and the impulse to excess…
John Birmingham
The Brave Ones follows the Indonesian Army’s Battalion 745 as it withdrew from East Timor after the 1999 independence vote, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. Birmingham’s unflinching…
Helen Garner
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice is the tale of a journey to Antarctica aboard the Professor Molchanov. With unmatched eloquence, Helen Garner spins a tale of ships, icebergs, tourism, time, photography…
Noel Pearson
In The War of the Worlds, Noel Pearson considers the shadow over Australia’s history: the question of genocide, in early Tasmania and elsewhere. With eloquence and passion, he explores the…
