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    • By: Molly McCully Brown
    • Narrated by: Rupert Farley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, survived the Australian detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon....

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    • By: John Howard
    • Narrated by: John Howard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the years that John Howard served in the national parliament he came to understand the special character of Australia.

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    • Peter Dutton’s Strongman Politics
    • By: Lech Blaine
    • Narrated by: Angus McGruther
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • In Bad Cop, Lech Blaine traces the making of a hardman – from Queensland detective to leader of the Opposition, from property investor to minister for Home Affairs. This is a story of ambition, race and power, and a politician with a plan.

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    • The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power
    • By: Lech Blaine
    • Narrated by: Nick John
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this perceptive and often hilarious essay, Lech Blaine dissects some top blokes, with particular focus on Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese, but stretching back to Bob Hawke and Kerry Packer....

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    • The Queen, the Governor-General, and the Plot to Dismiss Gough Whitlam
    • By: Jenny Hocking
    • Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Discover the role the queen played in Governor-General Sir John Kerr’s plans to dismiss Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1975, unleashing one of the most divisive episodes in Australia’s political history....

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    • What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand
    • By: Laura Tingle
    • Narrated by: Aimee Horne
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-20
    • Language: English
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    • Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, economics, history and more....

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    • Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future
    • By: Judith Brett
    • Narrated by: Judith Brett
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country - heavy on raw materials and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep’s back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG....

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    • All the Detail You Need
    • By: Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Kerry O'Brien, Thomas Mayo
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo and acclaimed journalist Kerry O’Brien have written this handbook to answer the most commonly asked questions about why the Voice should be enshrined in the Constitution....

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    • How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
    • By: Richard Denniss
    • Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Richard Denniss looks at ways to renew our democracy and discusses everything from the fragmenting Coalition to an idea of the national interest that goes beyond economics....

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    • Three Crooked Kings, Book 3
    • By: Matthew Condon
    • Narrated by: David Tredinnick
    • Series: Three Crooked Kings, Book 3
    • Length: 21 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • The conclusion to this epic true-crime trilogy provides the definitive account of an unforgettable period in Queensland's history....

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    • Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern
    • By: Laura Tingle
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Killen
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-16
    • Language: English
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    • What ever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world? Find out....

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    • By: Sir Keith Murdoch
    • Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller
    • Length: 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Gallipoli letter is an 8000-word private report written by journalist Keith Arthur Murdoch, with the help of British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, after visiting the Gallipoli peninsula in September 1915.

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    • The Secret History of a Labor Fiasco
    • By: Samantha Maiden
    • Narrated by: Leah McLeod
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
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    • Secrets, lies, lawyers and covert recordings. If you thought the 2019 election was just about a death tax that didn't exist, you're in for a surprise....

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    • By: Alexandra Smith
    • Narrated by: Alexandra Smith
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 30-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Secret is an unputdownable account of a story that captured Australia's attention, and a vital investigation of how the toxic power and gender dynamics of politics can shape ambition—and end careers....

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    • How #MeToo Is Changing Australia
    • By: Jess Hill
    • Narrated by: Jess Hill
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In 2021, Australia saw rage and revelation as #MeToo powered an insurgency against sexism and sexual violence. From once isolated survivors to political staffers, women everywhere were refusing to keep men’s secrets....

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    • The Making of Tony Abbott
    • By: David Marr
    • Narrated by: David Marr
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Quarterly Essay 47, David Marr goes beyond the clichés - Dr No, mad monk, gaffe-prone, budgie-smuggling gym junkie - to look at the man as he is and reveal what kind of prime minister he might be....

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    • Politics After the Pandemic
    • By: George Megalogenis
    • Narrated by: George Megalogenis
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-21
    • Language: English
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    • In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of social security and concern for the future? Between the fires and the plague, Scott Morrison had no choice but to adapt his style of leadership....

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