Quarterly Essay is an agenda-setting Australian journal of politics and culture. Each issue contains a single essay written at a length of about 25000 words followed by correspondence on previous essays.

Established in 2001 Quarterly Essay aims to present the widest range of political intellectual and cultural opinion and to foster debate. It offers a forum for original long-form investigations profiles and arguments.

Awarding-winning essays include Political Animal and Power Trip by David Marr That Sinking Feeling by Paul Toohey and Stop at Nothing by Annabel Crabb. Authors include Tim Flannery Don Watson Robyn Davidson Germaine Greer Robert Manne George Megalogenis Laura Tingle Anna Krien Waleed Aly Inga Clendinnen David Malouf and Noel Pearson.

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