David Marr

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result—a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world—of land seized, fortunes made and...

The top job is within Bill Shorten's grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country? In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first...

In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's brand of the politics of resentment now sweeping the world. The White Queen explores how Pauline Hanson is not alone out there. A million votes are in play. Strategists in both Labor and the Coalition are asking, what can we give them? At stake are the progressive hopes of most...

Stories, essays and speeches from one of Australia's foremost writers and thinkers. David Marr is the rarest of breeds—one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Country collects his powerful writing on...

Dark Victory is not only a fascinating description of past events: between the lines there are dark portents of repercussions yet to come. John Button, The Age Marr and Wilkinson have pulled together the whole confronting tale of how, through iron will, subterfuge, disregard for conventions of a civilised seafaring nation, the misuse of secret intelligence and the use of...