Meanjin 84.3 Spring 2025

Esther Anatolitis

$24.99

Paperback

In stock
Ready to ship

QTY:

English

MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
01 September 2025

Literary essays; Australian Society

How robust is Australian democracy? Fifty years ago, an elected government was abruptly dismissed by a governor-general whose reasons, methods and secret correspondences have never been made clear to the Australian public. This season we turn to the cultural and political impactsof 11 November 1975 that continue to shape contemporary Australia. Tom McIlroy speaks to the remaining living journalists who covered the event. Njamal man and Indigenous jurisprudence scholar Tyson Holloway-Clark looks at Pine Gap – the joint Australia-US military base placed on nuclear alert during Whitlam’s prime ministership without him or the Australian Government being informed – from a First Nations perspective. Virginia Haussegger tracks fifty years of political misogyny since the Whitlam Government appointed the world’s first Women’s Adviser to a national government and introduced Australia’s first Racial Discrimiation Act. Ben Eltham assess Whitlam’s arts and cultural legacy. Constitutional expert Anne Twomey touches on some of the constitutional sleepers that that threaten to undermine our democracy if tested. Compelling reading alongside fine poetry, fiction, memoir and review pieces makes this an historic edition of Australia’s leading literary journal that no Meanjin collection can be without. Embrace Australia’s finest writers: Meanjin 84.3 Spring 2025 out Tuesday 16 September.

By: Esther Anatolitis
Imprint: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9780522881561
ISBN 10: 0522881564
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marika Sosnowski is a legal anthropologist at Melbourne Law School and the granddaughter of Polish and Dutch Holocaust survivors. She went to Syria in 2007, primarily to eat makdous, hummus and ghazl al banat, and has worked on Syria – its revolution, war, governance and legal systems – ever since.