Quentin Beresford
Award Winning Author
Latest Release
Rogue Corporations
(2023)
From the 1980s until the present, the Australia public has suffered a continuous string of business scandals with often ruinous results. Quentin takes readers inside the greedy corporate cultures of some of the nation’s iconic firms to show how scandals erupt, their background causes and the often ruinous consequences for society.
Current Project
I am in the process of writing a book on Big Gambling and how it has taken over Australia. It explores the dark side of the industry: the normalisation of gambling through saturated advertising, the growth of problem gambling, the proliferation of poker machines, the criminality of casinos, the infiltration of sports and the capture of government.
I can be contacted on qberesf0@gmail.com
There ought to be more books in this vein: a full scale, well-assembled analysis of what caused a powerful and often feared business to collapse
Andrew Main
The Deal
Reviews
With sharp insights, Beresford’s rich documentation and exposition of events prosecute the extent to which Australia’s major political parties have become a revolving door between government and resource corporations.
Susan Reid
University of Sydney
Wounded Country is an evocative invocation of the need for Australia to examination with the environment
Jesssica Urwin
Australian National University
About Quentin
Author of more than a dozen books, Quentin is a multi-award winning non-fiction writer. Adopting a narrative style, he tells compelling stories about contentious, contemporary issues setting them in their historical, political and social context. He has written about environmental disasters, environmental campaigns, political corruption, Indigenous rights, corporate failures and biographies of notable public figures...
