Australia's Second Chance. What Our History Tells Us About Our Future

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Publisher Place: Hawthorn
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition:

Description: 324 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: The bestselling author of The Australian Moment asks the most important question confronting the country right now how do we maintain our winning streak Most nations dont get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the worlds richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches and our nerve, and shut our doors on the world. Now were back on top, in the position where history tells us we made our biggest mistakes. Can we learn from our past and cement our place as one of the worlds great nations Showing that our future is in our foundation, Australias Second Chance goes back to 1788, the first contact between locals and migrants, to bring us a unique and fascinating view of the key events of our past right through to the present day. With newly available economic data and fresh interviews with former leaders (including the last major interview with Malcolm Fraser), George Megalogenis crunches the numbers and weaves our history into a compelling thesis, brilliantly chronicling our dialogue with the world and bringing fresh insight into the urgent question of who we are, and what we can become. Megalogenis has emerged as something of a polymath. He slaps history and politics and culture like mortar in and around his knowledge of economics and numbers to build compelling, even thrilling, theses about the country of his birth and where it stands in the world. Tony Wright, Saturday Age

ISBN: 9781926428574