Quarterly Essay

Infobox Magazine
title = Quarterly Essay


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image_caption = First 2006 issue of "Quarterly Essay".
publisher = Morry Schwartz
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frequency = quarterly
language = Australian English
category = news magazine
editor = Chris Feik
editor_title = Managing Editor
firstdate = 2001
country = flag|Australia
website = http://www.quarterlyessay.com/qe/
issn = 1832-0953

"Quarterly Essay" is a highbrow, relatively small-circulation Australian journal that straddles the border between magazines and non-fiction books. 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. It was founded in 2001.

Concentrating primarily on Australian politics in a broad sense, the magazine's issues have covered topics including profiles of Mark Latham, to the U.S. military's failure to grasp the importance of tribal affiliation in Iraq, and the "cult" of the CEO. Its small circulation of a few thousand copies belies the impact it has had, with many ideas in a number of essays impacting the wider public debates on those issues through their repetition in more widely circulated media.

Founding editor Peter Craven was sacked by the magazine's owner, property developer Morry Schwartz, in early 2004 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".cite news |title= The Age: Showdown an essay in contrasts |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/20/1077072840352.html?from=storyrhs |date= February 21, 2004]

List of "Quarterly" Essay editions

1. Robert Manne - "In Denial - The Stolen Generations and the Right"

2. John Birmingham - "Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's complicity in the East_Timor tragedy"

3. Guy Rundle - "The opportunist: John Howard and the rise of reaction"

4. Don Watson - "Rabbit syndrome: Australia and America"

5. Mungo MacCallum - "Girt by sea: Australia, the refugees and the politics of fear"

6. John Button - "Beyond belief: what future for Labor?"

7. John Martinkus - "Paradise Betrayed - West Papua's Struggle for Independence"

8. Amanda Lohrey - "Groundswell - The Rise of the Greens"

9. Tim Flannery - "Beautiful Lies - Population & Environment in Australia"::* Review - by Sue Bond, API Network cite news |title= API Network: Review: Quarterly Essay: Beautiful Lies. Population and Environment in Australia |url= http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5148 |date= July 1, 2007]

10. Gideon Haigh - "Bad Company - The cult of the CEO"

11. Germaine Greer - "Whitefella Jump Up - The Shortest Way to Nationhood"

::* Interview with ABC TV presenter Andrew Denton cite news |title= ABC TV - Enough Rope: Germaine Greer |url= http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s946782.htm |date= September 15, 2003] ::* Review - by Mitchell Rolls, API Network cite news |title= APINetwork: Review: Quarterly Essay: Whitefella Jump Up |url= http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=reviews&webpage=api_reviews&flexedit=&flex_password=&menu_label=&menuID=homely&menubox=&Review=5150 |date= November, 2003]

12. David Malouf - "Made in England - Australia's British Inheritance"

13. Robert Manne with David Corlett - "Sending Them Home - Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference."

14. Paul McGeough - "Mission Impossible - The Sheikhs, the US and the future of Iraq"

15. Margaret Simons - "Latham's World - The New Politics of the Outsiders"

16. Raimond Gaita - "Breach of Trust - Truth, Morality and Politics"::* Review - Quarterly Essay 16: Matilda by larrikin cite news |title= Matilda - Quarterly Essay 16 - "Breach of Trust" by Raimond Gaita |url= http://www.middlemiss.org/weblog/archives/matilda/2005/01/quarterly_essay_1.html |date= January 5, 2005]

17. John Hirst - "Kangaroo Court - Family Law in Australia"

18. Gail Bell - "The Worried Well - The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows" ::* Interview with ABC presenter Eleanor Hall cite news |title= ABC Radio - the World Today: Rise in anti-depressant use causes concern |url= http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2005/1403591.htm |date= June 27, 2005] ::* Interview with ABC presenter Richard Aedy cite news |title= ABC Radio - Life Matters: Response to Gail Bell - 'The Worried Well' |url= http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2005/1403591.htm |date= June 30, 2005] ::* Review by Patrick Cullen in The Program cite news |title= Australia Council's Community Partnerships & Market Development Division, The Program |url= http://www.theprogram.net.au/reviewsSub.asp?id=2839&state=1 |date= September 6, 2005] ::* Response by Gordon Parker, Black Dog Institutecite news |title= Gordon Parker responds to Gail Bell’s Quarterly Essay article “The Worried Well” |url=http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/media/newsdesk/documents/TheWorriedWellCorrespondence.pdf |date= September 15, 2005] 19. Judith Brett - "Relaxed and Comfortable - The Liberal Party's Australia"

20. John Birmingham - "A Time for War- The Rebirth of Australia's Military Culture"

21. Clive Hamilton - "What's Left? - The death of social democracy" 22. Amanda Lohrey - "Voting for Jesus - Christianity and Politics in Australia"

23. Inga Clendinnen - "The History Question - Who Owns The Past?"::* Interview with ABC presenter Phillip Adams cite news |title= ABC Radio - Late Night Live: Inga Clendinnen: Who owns the past? |url= http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2007/1811812.htm |date= January 25, 2007] ::* Interview with ABC presenter Paul Barclay cite news |title= ABC Radio - Inga Clendinnen: How to teach our children |url= http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/stories/2006/1777989.htm |date= November 3, 2006]

24. Robyn Davidson - "No Fixed Address - Nomads and the Fate of the Planet"::* Review by Arthur Lucas, University of East Angliacite news |title= National Library of Australia review by Arthur Lucas |url= http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/ras/article/view/475/510 |date= January 5, 2005]

25. Peter Hartcher - "How To Win The 2007 Election"

26. David Marr - "His Master’s Voice - The Corruption of Public Debate under Howard "::* Public debate, with ABC presenter Phillip Adams cite news |title= Late Night Live: Public Debate in Australia under Howard |url= http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2007/1938949.htm |date= May 31, 2007] ::* Review - [http://www.penguin.com.au/lookinside/spotlight.cfm?SBN=9781863954051 His Master's Voice] cite news |title= Penguin Group (Australia) His Master's Voice: Quarterly Essay 26: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard |url= http://www.penguin.com.au/lookinside/spotlight.cfm?SBN=9781863954051 |date= May 30, 2007]

27. Ian Lowe - "Reaction Time - Climate Change and the Nuclear Option"

28. Judith Brett - "Exit Right - The Unravelling of John Howard"

29. Anne Manne - "Love and Money: The family and the free market"

30. Paul Toohey - "Last Drinks: The impact of the Northern Territory intervention"

External links

[http://www.quarterlyessay.com/qe/ Quarterly Essay]

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