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AFA6 is out now
The sixth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia’s struggle to retain influence among its Pacific island neighbours as foreign powers play a greater role and as small nations brace for the impacts of climate change.

QE74 is out now
Who are Morrison’s “quiet Australians”? What did Shorten Labor fail to see? And will fear always trump hope in politics? The Prosperity Gospel sheds new light on the politics of a divided nation.

Read an extract: See What You Made Me Do
In the thirty-nine days before she was murdered, Kelly Thompson called the police thirty-eight times. Read on below for an extract from the chapter 'State of Emergency.' CW: distressing content and violence.

On David Malouf: Writers on Writers
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers out now.

Vale Les Murray
Black Inc. mourns the passing of Les Murray

Growing Up African in Australia: Extract
Read Maxine Beneba Clarke's introduction to Growing Up African in Australia.

QE73 is out now
What do Australians want most from their next government? In this vivid, grounded, surprising essay, Rebecca Huntley listens to the people and hears a call for change.

Extract: Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics
‘Australians live in an age in which hardline conservative views on a range of issues set the terms of public policy, sometimes in direct opposition to the desires of the public at large. Why is this so?’
Read an extract from Dominic Kelly’s new book Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics.

AFA5 is out now!
The fifth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia’s struggle to define its place in Asia as it balances its historic ties to the West with its geography.

Growing Up Queer in Australia contributor announcement
Black Inc. is pleased to annouce the contributors to its new anthology, Growing Up Queer in Australia.