AQ: Australian Quarterly

For over 90 years AQ: Australian Quarterly has been packing its pages with the debates that have shaped Australia and the world, tackling the big topics in science, politics and society. Grounded in evidence, yet written in a style accessible to everyone, AQ is unique in Australia’s publishing landscape, pushing back against the trends of subjective truth and media spin. If it matters to Australia then it matters to AQ.

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AQ: Australian Quarterly

How children have become entangled with social media commerce • People often ask me what it’s like to be an anthropologist of digital cultures. Well-meaning conversationalists want to know what an ‘Indiana Jones’ of the 2020s would look like, while some have passed questioning remarks asking if all I do is ‘be addicted to the internet’.

Are the Teals Breaking the Mould of Australian Politics? • The success of the six women dubbed ‘teals’ was a defining feature of the 2022 federal election. Their victories in previously blue-ribbon Liberal seats – part of a major surge in crossbench representation – was certainly the most important transformation, other than the change of government after almost nine years of conservative rule and three prime ministers.

Creating a Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain • In 1952 - less than 10 years after the Japanese military had attacked the Australian mainland in the final years of WWII - Prime Minister Robert Menzies opened the Australian Embassy in Tokyo. Five years later, in 1957, the two countries signed the Japan-Australia Commerce Agreement, which has been the foundation for their bilateral relationship ever since. As the world enters a new energy future, this relationship and its importance for Indo-Pacific geopolitics, is once again in the spotlight.

FROM THE ARCHIVE Makarrata Dreaming • Disclaimer: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that this article contains images and names of deceased persons.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE: 1999 • What is it going to take to reconcile Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians? Pat Dodson was mindful of this when, during the debate for an Australian republic, he warned: “There is a danger of a new constitution being drafted that tries to capture the spirit of a modern Australia, but that denies the spirit of Indigenous Australia. Terra nullius may be gone but the old habits of constitutional drafters die hard. The silences and omissions of the past echo loudly in the present.”

2023 AIPS Post Budget Health Briefings • Canberra and Sydney

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