Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It by Alan Kohler
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Category: Essays
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
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Category: Essays
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
On Freedom by Tory Shepherd
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Category: Essays
They're labelled as selfish, as 'deliberately barren', and sometimes as crazy old cat ladies, but increasingly women are choosing to be childfree. By 2030 couples without children are set to outnumber those who have them.Tory Shepherd looks at how women's freedom to choose motherhood is reshaping their ...Show more
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more by Natasha Lunn
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Category: Essays
*THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships ...Show more
On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
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Category: Essays | Series: On ... Series | Reading Level: near fine
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar ...Show more
The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World by Chao-Hwei Shih; Peter Singer
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Category: Essays
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty and more. An unlikely duo-Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent Australian philosopher and professor of b ...Show more
On Women: A New Collection of Feminist Essays from the Influential Writer, Activist and Critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays
For the first time, On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood. A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential write ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
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Category: Essays
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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Category: Essays
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
Statements from the Soul: The Moral Case for the Uluru Statement from the Heart by Shireen Morris, Damien Freeman
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Category: Essays
A collection of passionate essays from religious leaders arguing for a First Nations Voice to be enshrined in the Australian Constitution. In this ground-breaking collection of essays, diverse religious leaders and thinkers come together to advocate for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Contributors ...Show more
Poetry Notebook 2006-2014 by Clive James
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The last ten years has unequivocally demonstrated that Clive James is far more than a mere talking head. Once known as one of the English-speaking world s most popular television personalities, James has gone on to be a celebrated essayist, translator, and poet. The appearance of Poetry Notebook, which ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
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Category: Essays
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more