Anna Krien is described as a fearless writer, who tries to make sense of subjects that are difficult and confronting - sex and football, the forestry industry in Tasmania, our treatment of animals.

In the latest Quarterly Essay Anna examines the politics and psychology of the ‘climate wars’ in Australia

She travelled around the country, talking to power workers, scientists, farmers and politicians.

She swam and dived on the Great Barrier Reef, and saw the bleached coral for herself.

The result is Anna's latest Quarterly Essay, which she describes as the "biggest, toughest work she’s ever done."

Further information

The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock (Quarterly Essay #66) is published by Black Inc