Dead Right: How neoliberalism are itself and what comes next: Quarterly Essay 70

Politics & Social Sciences

Denniss, Richard

Politics & Government

Quarterly Essay

Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age: Quarterly Essay 72

Smee, Sebastian

Philosophy

The High Road: Quarterly Essay 80

Tingle, Laura

Legal Theory & Systems

The End of Certainty: Quarterly Essay 79: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics

Murphy, Katharine

Australia's #MeToo Moment

Hill, Jess

Social Sciences

An essential guide to how Australia can tackle the climate crisis 
The world is overheating, and despite good intentions and significant efforts, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. 
In this lucid, inspiring essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's path forward. He explains the solar and wind revolution, and addresses the challenge of intermittent supply. He introduces hydrogen, the energy hope of the future. He traces the rise and rise of the electric car. He shows how we can build a zero-emissions world. 
Taking into account economics, science and emotions, Getting to Zero is an essential guide to how Australia can tackle the climate crisis with realism and ingenuity. 
"Change is in the air. I sense we will live through a technological revolution this decade as exciting as the conquest of space in the 1960s. If Australia handles the challenge well, we can build an economy that takes advantage of the transition. If we cling to the past, we will miss opportunities that the rest of the world will seize."-Alan Finkel, Getting to Zero

Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition: QE81

Science & Math

Finkel, Alan

Technology

Why is public debate increasingly polarised - and what can we do about it?\nIs our democracy corroding? In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate - and the threat it now faces.\nIn a healthy society we need the capacity to disagree. Yet Aly and Stephens note a growing tendency to disdain and dismiss opponents, to treat them with contempt. This toxic partisanship has been imported from the United States, where it has been a temptation for both left and right. Aly and Stephens discuss some telling examples, analyse the role of the media, and look back to heroes of democracy who found a better way forward.\nArguing that democracy cannot survive contempt, they draw on philosophy, literature and history to make an urgent case about the present.\n'So what do we owe those with whom we might profoundly, even radically, disagree? In our time, the answer increasingly seems to be: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We've come to regard our opponents as not much more than obstructions in the road, impediments standing between us and our desired end. We have grown disinclined to consider what it might mean to go on together meaningfully as partners within a shared democratic project. To put it bluntly, we see no future with our political opponents because we feel we have nothing to learn from them.' Waleed Aly & Scott Stephens, Uncivil Wars

Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy: Quarterly Essay 87

Stephens, Scott

Aly, Waleed

The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal: Quarterly Essay 89

Engineering & Transportation

Griffith, Saul

Engineering

The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92

Kohler, Alan

Sociology

Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics; Quarterly Essay 93

Biographies & Memoirs

Blaine, Lech

Leaders & Notable People

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