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Quarterly Essay: His Master's Voice, QE 26 / David Marr "The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard"
Chris Feik (Editor) / David Marr "The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard"
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 185 pages. David Marr "The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard" (SL#106).
A Time For War: Quarterly Essay, Issue 20, 2005 / John Birmingham "A Time For War Australia as a Military Power"
Chris Feik (Editor) / John Birmingham "A Time For War Australia as a Military Power"
Published by Black Inc 2005
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 94 pages. John Birmingham "A Time For War Australia as a Military Power" (SL#106).
Language: English
Published by Black Inc. 2018
Series: Quarterly Essay, Book 16 of 98. Book 16 of 98 - Quarterly Essay
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Paperback. Condition: condition: good. The Family Court was a progressive reform of the 1970s. Now it is perhaps the most hated institution in Australia. In the first Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Hirst investigates what went wrong. This is a measured yet unsparing appraisal which interleaves individual cases with compelling leg…al and moral argument. Hirst takes us deep into the workings of the Court and the domestic apocalypses it sees every day. He explores the Court's fervour to uphold the best interests of the child no matter what and traces its chilling consequence- a court where malicious allegations regularly go unpunished. He notes the Court's enormous power over individual lives, as well as its self-proclaimed status as a 'caring court', and wonders at its ability to overlook the defiance of its own authority. In closing, he considers how to reform an institution that has bred antagonism and extremism and too often entrenched paranoia and despair. Lucid and urgent, 'Kangaroo Court' is a cautionary tale about the perils of high-mindedness when it comes to dealing with the breakdown of families. 'When Family Court judges talk piously of the 'caring court', I wish they could hear the roar of pain that their piety has caused.' - John Hirst, 'Kangaroo Court'.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Slight curve to front cover. Pages are sunned.This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead, it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be.Thes…e are the essential statements - from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries - that take us from Federation to the first decade of the 21st century, and tell a story of national self-discovery.There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a 'workingman's paradise', and the historian who explained why. The two reporters who realised the true significance of Gallipoli and conveyed it to the nation. Russel Ward on theAustralian Legend, Robin Boyd on theAustralian Ugliness, Donald Horne on the Lucky Country, W E H Stanner on theGreat Australian Silence and Anne Summers on Manzone Country. Real Matildas, Cultural Cringers,Future Eaters and Forgotten People - and much more.Memorably written and cohesive, this is the essential sourcebook of the words that made Australia. (back cover).
