A better quality national conversation? Conducted by clever people who know a thing or two? You're holding it in your hand. From racism in small town New Zealand and being inside Hillary's hut at Scott Base to why dams are bad for us and growing up Chinese, this collection of provocative, impassioned essays by smart thinkers will tune up your intellectual engine. This annual journal of provocative, passionate and argumentative essays is made for anyone who thinks there's little to stimulate intelligent well-informed debate in the media anymore and who hungers for some brain food.