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The Lucky Country
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Author : Donald Horne
language : en
Publisher: London : Angus & Robertson
Release Date : 1978
The Lucky Country written by Donald Horne and has been published by London : Angus & Robertson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
The Lucky Country
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Author : Donald Horne
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date : 1998
The Lucky Country written by Donald Horne and has been published by Penguin Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Australia categories.
There has never been a book like The Lucky Country . Outselling all other books on Australia, it has helped shape the society it set out to explore. The phrase 'the lucky country' has become part of the Australian language, setting the guidelines for debates about the Australian way of life. When it was first published in 1964 as a radical critique of the philistinism, provincialism and dependence of Australian society, the book caused a sensation. Stylish and witty, it has become a classic. Although a study of the confident Australia of the 1960s, it still has much to offer decades later. This edition contains a new introduction by the author which takes a fresh look at the book and examines its value not only as a source of continuing truths and revealing snapshots of the past, but above all as a key to understanding the anxieties and discontents of Australian society today.
The Lucky Country
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Author : Donald Horne
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Release Date : 2009-06-29
The Lucky Country written by Donald Horne and has been published by Penguin Group Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-29 with History categories.
'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.' First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past.
Lucky Country
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Author : Ian Lowe
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2016-03-23
Lucky Country written by Ian Lowe and has been published by Univ. of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with Political Science categories.
Can we reinvent the Lucky Country? Fifty years ago author Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run by second-rate people', adding that our leaders are mostly unaware of events that surround them. The good fortune continued when our wide brown land proved to contain bountiful resources of saleable minerals, allowing successive generations of second-rate leaders to create an illusion of economic progress by liquidating those assets. But a crisis is approaching, driven by irresponsible encouragement of population growth rates typical of poor developing countries. In this polemic work, Ian Lowe will assess the state of Australia and whether we can retain our status of the Lucky Country.
The Lucky Culture
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Author : Nick Cater
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2013-05-01
The Lucky Culture written by Nick Cater and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with History categories.
A bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and a plea to keep Australia's famed open-mindedness, Cater tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture and outlook since Donald Horne published THE LUCKY COUNTRY in 1964. 'A great book.' Rupert Murdoch A bold and provocative book about Australia's national identity and how it is threatened by the rise of a ruling class. Nick Cater, senior editor at the Australian, tracks the seismic changes in Australian culture and outlook since Donald Horne wrote the Lucky Country in 1964. His belief is that countries don't get lucky; people do. the secret of Australia's good fortune is not found in its geography or history. the key to its success is the Australian character, the nation's greatest renewable resource. Liberated from the constraints of the old world, Australia's pioneers mined their reserves of enterprise, energy and ingenuity to build the great civilization of the south. their over-riding principle was fairness: everybody had a right to a fair go and was obliged to do the right thing by others. today that spirit of egalitarianism is threatened by the rise of a new breed of sophisticated Australians - the 'bunyip alumni' - who claim to better understand the demands of the age. their presumption of elitism and superior virtue tempts them to look down on others and dismiss opposing views. Half a century after Donald Horne named Australia 'the Lucky Country', Nick Cater takes stock of the new battle to define Australia and the rift that divides a presumptive ruling class from a people who refuse to be ruled. the Lucky Culture is a lively and original take on 21st century Australia and its people. Sometimes rousing, often provocative and always good-humoured, its unexpectedly moving message cannot be ignored. 'tHE LUCKY CULtURE is a great book and particularly relevant as it comes in a moment of high political excitement. I particularly loved Nick Cater's passion for the great Australian dream. It is the first step in restoring that dream.' Rupert Murdoch
Children Of The Lucky Country
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Author : Fiona Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Release Date : 2007-11-10
Children Of The Lucky Country written by Fiona Stanley and has been published by Macmillan Publishers Aus. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-10 with Family & Relationships categories.
We're all concerned for our children-their health, happiness and development. Yet despite living in a society where we've come to expect increasing economic prosperity and technical advancement, many key indicators of the health, well being and development of our children are not improving, and some are worsening. And with economic growth and increasing wealth, the inequalities between the advantaged and disadvantaged are growing rather than narrowing. What are the issues really involved, and what can we do about them? Children of the Lucky Country? is a book that incisively examines the way we treat our children and sets out the ways that our society can fully realise their potential. It's a book for anyone with an interest in our young-from parents to educators. Children of the Lucky Country? is an informed, timely and stimulating addition to a vital national debate.
Oh Lucky Country
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Author : Rosa Cappiello
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Oh Lucky Country written by Rosa Cappiello and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Oh Lucky Country (Paese fortunato) uses first-person point of view to inflate migrant oppression to such absurdist proportions that its swirling narrative boils over into a maelstrom, washing away all migrant clichés. It is a witty, tragi-comic view of Australian society, culture and prejudice. This new edition of Oh Lucky Country, with introductions by Nicole Moore and Gaetano Rando, is a part of the Australian Classics Library series intended to make classic texts of Australian literature more widely available for the secondary school and undergraduate university classroom, and to the general reader. The series is co-edited by Emeritus Professor Bruce Bennett of the University of New South Wales and Professor Robert Dixon, Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, in conjunction with SETIS, Sydney University Press, AustLit and the Copyright Agency Limited. Each text is accompanied by a fresh scholarly introduction and a basic editorial apparatus drawn from the resources of AustLit. Rosa Cappiello was born in Naples, Italy, in 1942. She migrated to Australia in 1971 with no knowledge of English and no skills and worked in various manual occupations. She published her first novel, I semi negri (The Black Seeds) in 1977 in Italy. In 1982, she was writer-in-residence at the University of Wollongong. She died in 2008 in Italy.
The Lucky Country
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Author : Rose M Cullen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-18
The Lucky Country written by Rose M Cullen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-18 with categories.
The Glendon family seek a new home and fortune in The Lucky Country after Patrick's farm in Ireland is bankrupted by a freak storm. Their journey traverses the epic landscape of Australia and their fate collides with a cast of equally lost souls on the vast wheat and sheep station in Western Australia owned by Jack Anderson, a man as tough and ruthless as his pioneering father. Australia in the early 1960's was a world on the brink of change. The Lucky Country strained under its White Australia Policy and was opening up to a greater diversity. Aboriginals had not been viewed as full human beings, one reason why their children were stolen with impunity and herded into missions. The referendum of 1967 at last accorded some level of citizenship. But storyteller, Ben Down, is as uprooted as any of the immigrants he encounters, the ways of his ancestors in his 'Born Country' no longer possible. Stories and memories weave together over the breadth of the twentieth century and one man's luck may be another's misfortune.
On How I Came To Write The Lucky Country
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Author : Donald Horne
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2006
On How I Came To Write The Lucky Country written by Donald Horne and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The publication in 1964 of The Lucky Country changed the way that Australians thought about themselves. This work is an extract from Horne's memoirs that recalls the personal and public circumstances, which led him to write The Lucky Country.
The Lucky Country
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Author : Ian Lowe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-04
The Lucky Country written by Ian Lowe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-04 with categories.
Can we reinvent the Lucky Country? In 1964, Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run mainly by second - rate people who share its luck' in his iconic book. Now, more than five decades later, internationally respected scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe shows that little has changed after generations of short - sighted leadership. In his frank and fearless way, Lowe assesses the state of Australia in four key areas: our environment, population and society, geographical position, and unrelenting pursuit of economic growth. Highlighting that the global economy and the environment are in crisis, Lowe illustrates the need - and the opportunity - to transform Australia into the world - leading model of sustainable development that we have the potential to become. A must - read, The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia challenges us all to consider the kind of future we want for our country and communities.