John Button Prize 2013 longlist announced
31 May 2013 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The longlist for the 2013 John Button Prize for writing on Australian politics and policy has been announced.
The longlisted titles are:
- The New Leviathan: A National Disability Insurance Scheme (Andrew Baker, Centre for Independent Studies)
- Mine-field: The Dark Side of Australia’s Resources Rush (Paul Cleary, Black Inc.)
- Reluctant Rescuers: An exploration of the Australian border protection system’s safety record in detecting and intercepting asylum-seeker boats, 1998-2011 (Tony Kevin, self-published)
- Quarterly Essay 48, After the Future: Australia’s New Extinction Crisis (Tim Flannery, Black Inc.)
- 7 Myths about Women and Work (Catherine Fox, NewSouth)
- Quarterly Essay 49, Not Dead Yet: Labor’s Post-Left Future (Mark Latham, Black Inc.)
- Tales from the Political Trenches (Maxine McKew, MUP)
- Quarterly Essay 47, Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott (David Marr, Black Inc.)
- Don’t Go Back to Where You Came From: Why Multiculturalism Works (Tim Soutphommasane, NewSouth)
- Money Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship (Jeff Sparrow, Scribe)
- Quarterly Essay 46, Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation (Laura Tingle, Black Inc.).
The winner of the $20,000 prize will be announced during the Melbourne Writers Festival in August.
The John Button Prize is awarded annually to ‘the best piece of thinking and writing on a subject of public policy’. Last year’s prize was awarded to Andrew Charlton’s Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet (Black Inc.).
For more information on the award, click here.
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