Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
Quarterly Essay 65 The White Queen
One Nation and the Politics of Race
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation.
In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia’s politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality?...
Quarterly Essay 59 Faction Man
Bill Shorten's Path to Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
The top job is within Bill Shorten’s grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country? In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidable...
Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World
Choosing Between Progress and Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague’s words: “The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.” In this groundbreaking essay,...
Quarterly Essay 38 Power Trip
The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, prime minister. In Eumundi, where Rudd was born, David Marr investigates the formative tragedy of his life: the death of his father and what came after. He tracks the transformation of a dreamy kid into an implacably determined youth, already set on the prime...
Quarterly Essay 58 Blood Year
Terror and the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Winner of the 2015 Walkley Award for best long feature writing
Last year was a “blood year” in the Middle East – massacres and fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq,...
Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business
Sex, Freedom and Misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched...
Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling
Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Winner of the 2014 Walkley Award for Feature Writing In That Sinking Feeling, Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we’ve now missed our chance. Tony Abbott promised to stop the boats. With the help...
Political Animal
The Making of Tony Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Winner of the 2013 John Button Prize The essential work on Tony Abbott is now an expanded, updated short book – and a crucial election-year companion. Australians want to know: what kind of man is Tony Abbott, and how would he perform as prime minister? In this dramatic portrait, David Marr shows...
by David Marr
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott have resumed battle for leadership of the nation. Here, in one volume, are their definitive portraits by Australias pre-eminent biographer and investigative journalist. Power Trip shows the making of Kevin Rudd, from the formative tragedy of his life the death of his father...
Faction Man
Bill Shorten's Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
In Faction Man, David Marr traces the career of a Labor warrior. In dazzling style, he shows how this brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party in pursuit of an ambition he set himself in childhood: to be Prime Minister of Australia.
Bill Shorten...
After the Blast
An Australian officer in Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
A very Australian story of heroism and healing.
In 2004 Garth Callender, a junior cavalry officer, was deployed to Iraq. He quickly found his feet leading convoys of armoured vehicles through the streets of Baghdad and into the desert beyond. But one morning his crew was targeted in a roadside...
Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation
In Praise of a Plural World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate:...
Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within
American Politics in the Time of Trump
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
In Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016 – and the strangest election campaign that country has seen.
Travelling in the Midwest, Watson reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and the “thicket of unreality” that is the American...
Practice
Journalism, Essays and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Known for his wild wit and irreverent commentary, Guy Rundle is one of Australia’s sharpest and most entertaining minds.
Practice distils his best writing on politics, culture, class and more. In it, Rundle roves the campaign trails of Obama and Trump, Rudd and Abbott; rides the Greyhound...