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Quentin Beresford

Quentin Beresford is an Adjunct Professor at Sunshine Coast University and the author of The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd, Adani and the War over Coal and Wounded Country (winner of the 2022 Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of state significance), all published by NewSouth.

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9781742236780

Wounded Country

Quentin Beresford

The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd

Quentin Beresford

Fearless and forensic in its analysis, the book shows that Tasmania's decades-long quest to industrialise nature fails every time. But the collapse of Gunns is the most telling of them all.

Adani and the War Over Coal

Quentin Beresford

Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics – and our country – into the fossil fuel age.

9781742237589

Rogue Corporations

Quentin Beresford

Award-winning author Quentin Beresford investigates Australia’s corporate Australia’s highest-profile scandals.