Quarterly Essay
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| Quarterly Essay | |
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 First 2006 issue of Quarterly Essay. |
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| Managing Editor | Chris Feik |
| Categories | news magazine |
| Frequency | quarterly |
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Publisher |
Morry Schwartz |
| First Issue | 2001 |
| Country |  Australia |
| Language | Australian English |
| Website | [1] |
| ISSN | 1832-0953 |
Quarterly Essay is a highbrow, relatively small-circulation Australian news magazine 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 Morrie 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".
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 McCullum - "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"
10. Gideon Haigh - "Bad Company - The cult of the CEO"
11. Germaine Greer - "Whitefella Jump Up - The Shortest Way to Nationhood"
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"
17. John Hirst - "Kangaroo Court - Family Law in Australia"
18. Gail Bell - "The Worried Well - The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows"
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?"
24. Robyn Davidson - "No Fixed Address - Nomads and the Fate of the Planet"
25. Peter Hartcher - "How To Win The 2007 Election"
