AQ: Australian Quarterly

For over 85 years AQ: Australian Quarterly has been packing its pages with the country’s most distinguished and passionate thinkers, tackling the big issues in science, politics and society. With longer-style articles written by those at the forefront of the debates, AQ is unique in bridging the gap between journal and magazine, combining the compelling writing of a glossy with the intellectual rigour of a journal. If it matters to Australia then it matters to AQ.

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AQ: Australian Quarterly

No Advantage: Australia’s Legacy Caseload • ‘People of refugee background have, as a result of their lived experiences, resounding resilience, skills, abilities and wisdom. These qualities are the seed of innovation and social entrepreneurship. In persisting and enduring life-threatening situations to arrive in Australia, in losing all that is familiar, in reassessing what life’s priorities are, in arriving with nothing but a deep desire to live in peace, people of refugee background carry an inherent value for life and continuity and thus a wiser insight into sustainability.’1

As Bad As It Looks: Australia’s Medici Cycle • On the first Monday in February each year, the political donations data lands with a thunk. There is a flurry of newspaper articles on the easiest to identify standout issues. Any real analysis of what matters will take weeks, if it comes at all.

Health Expertise and Covid-19 Managing the Fear Factor

The ‘New World’ is Old: Journeying Through Deep Time • Leaving Melbourne University’s Parkville Campus at the end of the workday, we meander down one of the main CBD drags, Elizabeth Street, in the direction of Flinders Street Station – toward the beating heart of the city and a defining artefact and enabler of the industrial order. It seems like a suitable landmark and symbol to inspire our inaugural journey.

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