{"product_id":"great-expectations-qe46-by-laura-tingle-copy","title":"Great Expectations; QE46 by Laura Tingle","description":"\u003cp\u003eRather than relaxed and comfortable, Australians are disenchanted with politics and politicians. In \u003cem\u003eQuarterly Essay 46\u003c\/em\u003e Laura Tingle shows that the answer goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eSince the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle shows, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minister has grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive the federation. Through all of this, and back to our origins, runs an almost childlike sense of the government as saviour and provider that has remained constant even as the world has changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow we are an angry nation, and the Age of Entitlement is coming to an end. What will a different politics look like? And, Tingle asks, even if a leader surfs the wave of anger all the way to power, what answer can be given to our great expectations?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCorrespondence discussing Quarterly Essay 46, \u003cem\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.quarterlyessay.com.au\/correspondence\/correspondence-john-wanna\"\u003eJohn Wanna\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.quarterlyessay.com.au\/correspondence\/correspondence-mark-mckenna\"\u003eMark McKenna\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\t\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.quarterlyessay.com.au\/correspondence\/correspondence-greg-jericho\"\u003eGreg Jericho\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n","brand":"QE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44592876290183,"sku":"POD-9781863955645-QE","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0313\/7211\/6103\/products\/qe46_22e96891-a505-4145-b217-8c84f83cdec1.jpg?v=1625796669","url":"https:\/\/shop.schwartzbooks.com.au\/products\/great-expectations-qe46-by-laura-tingle-copy","provider":"Schwartz Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}