The Lucky Culture And The Rise Of An Australian Ruling Class

A Politics, Nonfiction, Australia book. What I thought would be an interesting read was boring, repetitive and disjointed. The author...

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...

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Nick Cater is rightly concerned that some people on the left in Australia allow their disagreements with ideologies to become dislikes of people who hold those ideologies. The only problem is that Nick Cater also dislikes these people he disagrees with.This is a profoundly un-selfconscious book. Cater seems genuine in his concern about... What I thought would be an interesting read was boring, repetitive and disjointed. The author talks about an Australian ruling class as a result of more university graduates over the last generation or so - a politically correct class who are taking over the country. That they are ruining the "lucky country" of Australia because of... 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,...


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