The Lucky Culture And The Rise Of An Australian Ruling Class
A Politics, Australia, Sociology book. A truly awful book. Mostly anecdotal and mostly repetitive but yet it never makes the case there is "an Australian...
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...
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Read this after seeing it was on the holiday reading list of a number of our politicians. It both essentially references and updates Donald Horne's original "The Lucky Country" and provides and interesting insight from Nick Cater, born in the UK but who has been here since 1989, as to the changes in our culture. It covers religion,... This was a great read; it had some weaknesses, but was really well written. The re-revisionism of Australian political/cultural history in this book is long overdue and deserves a wide readership. It has sent the moralistic left wing into a frenzy! Cater has a rose-coloured understanding of progress in Western history (some have called... A truly awful book. Mostly anecdotal and mostly repetitive but yet it never makes the case there is "an Australian Ruling Class" of the type Nick Cater suggests. There is a PC culture but does it actually have the run of the place? I would contend that it does not. I would also contend that Australians have changed over the last 30...
