Recently added articles from Quarterly Essay:
Note on style.(aborigines)
Jun 01, 2008; ... If there is an us-and-themness to this story, which rudely assumes the reader is non-Aboriginal, I apologise, but as a white man I cannot do other than stand on the outside and look in. Nor do I seek to sign up to the growing white Australian sport of claiming a Warlpiri, Pintupi, ...
The impact of the Northern Territory intervention.(LAST DRINKS)
Jun 01, 2008; ... If I got one thing against the black chappies, it's this: no one gives it to you; you got to take it.--Francis Costello, New York-Irish gangster in The Departed Give me a thousand acres of tractable land & all the gang members that exist & you'll see the Authentic alternative ...
Correspondence: Sara Dowse.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... In 1973 I went to work for the late Clyde Cameron, then the minister for labour and immigration. There was no odder couple. I was a single mother, he was an ex-shearer, a committed unionist who had taken on both the right wing of the Australian Workers' Union and the left of the Victorian ...
Correspondence: Don Edgar.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... Anne Manne's Love & Money is an interesting, but incomplete, analysis of the ways in which, she believes, dramatic shifts in the "gender bargain" and "new capitalism" have altered the culture and demand new policies of family support. Her proposals for reform, at the end of her ...
Correspondence: May Lam.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... When our second baby was just eight weeks old, I would leave the house at 9 a.m., go to the Office a fifteen-minute drive away, work for an hour and a half, drive home, feed the baby, drive back to the Office and work till 2 p.m., watching the clock. Coming home I drove like a demon, cut ...
Correspondence: Steve Biddulph.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... In her essay Love & Money, Anne Manne shows a depth and range of analysis that is rare in social-science writing today. Her arguments go behind the child-care debate, behind the work and family tension that is now in the foreground of most Australians' daily lives, to ask the really big ...
Correspondence: Virginia Haussegger.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... She is not the ogre she might seem, but that doesn't stop a number of women I know avoiding contact with Anne Manne. They don't want to discuss her, don't want to listen to her, and keep her book Motherhood at the bottom of their reading pile. It's a bit like going to the gym: they know ...
Correspondence: Julie Stephens.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... In Love & Money Anne Manne calls on us to imagine a radically different model of social and political life, one that centres around care rather than on gendered notions of the autonomous, unencumbered individual. In this new social imaginary, care-giving would be recognised as thoughtful, ...
Correspondence: Sushi Das.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... In Love & Money Anne Manne argues we are at a fork in the road: an historic turning point in the dance between work and family. The workplace has become the arena of women's liberation, pushing feminism straight into the hands of capitalism's need to get everyone into work. When paid work ...
Correspondence: Natasha Cica.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... The publication of Anne Manne's Quarterly Essay on the family and the free market was well timed. It hit news-stands just as it was becoming clear, several months after federal election 07, that in important respects Kevin Rudd's unfurling social and economic blueprint for Australia is ...
Response to correspondence: Anne Manne.(LOVE & MONEY)(Viewpoint essay)
Jun 01, 2008; ... Late one night over dinner, I listened to an ambitious young couple talk about life after the birth of their child. The mother-to-be had an intensely imagined scenario of equal work and sharing of care. The father-to-be vaguely agreed, but admitted he hadn't yet had much time to think ...