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    • The New Shape of Australian Politics
    • By: George Megalogenis
    • Narrated by: George Megalogenis
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Australian politics is shifting. The two-party system was broken at the last federal election, and another minority government is a real possibility in the future. Politics-as-usual is not enough for many voters....

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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 198 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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    • 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 46 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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    • The Anti-Industrial Revolution
    • By: Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for....

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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 252 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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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: George Orwell, Bernard Crick
    • Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
    • Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art....

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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 83 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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    • A Selection
    • By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M. A. Screech in Penguin Classics....

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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 7 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: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-01-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history....

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    • By: John Locke
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 30 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • John Locke and his works - particularly An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - are regularly and rightly presented as foundations for the Age of Enlightenment....

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    • Essays
    • By: Zadie Smith
    • Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream....

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    • Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution
    • By: Paul Toohey
    • Narrated by: Dave Graney
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In the first Quarterly Essay of 2014, Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we’ve now missed our chance...

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    • Who Needs It
    • By: Ayn Rand
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Who needs philosophy? Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • One of conservatism's most articulate voices dissects today's most important economic, racial, political, education, legal, and social issues, sharing his entertaining and thought-provoking insights on a wide range of contentious subjects....

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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 193 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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    • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government
    • By: John Locke
    • Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
    • Length: 30 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Credited as the Father of Liberalism and revered for his ground-breaking theories, John Locke left behind a legacy which has radically shaped political and philosophical thought for over 300 years....

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