We Should Be So Lucky

‘A most interesting and positive analysis…Highlights the contribution to our country’s success of our particular democratic institutions and a market system of openness of Australia to trade, migration and investment.’ John Howard, former prime minister of Australia

‘What makes Australia so special, and what we need to guard against.’ Lucy Hughes Turnbull, former lord mayor of Sydney

‘A brilliantly researched analysis… Likely to do more to transform our self-image than any writing since Horne’s The Lucky Country.’ Bob Carr, former Australian foreign minister and premier of NSW

‘An insightful view of Australia’s past successes. More importantly, a way forward for western democracies in the challenging era ahead.’ Nick Greiner, former premier of NSW and Australian consul-general New York

‘Andrew Low delivers a giant positive reality check to the endless stream of negativity in electronic and social media.’ Lindsay Tanner, former Australian minister for finance

‘Perceptive and pertinent, and possibly prescient’ Mark Johnson, former deputy chairman, Macquarie Bank

‘There are few Australians who understand contemporary Britain better than Andrew Low… We Should Be So Lucky is full of shrewd insight born of long experience.’ George Brandis, former Australian high commissioner to the United Kingdom

Andrew Low’s interest in Australia’s unique culture, institutions and place in the world started when he grew up in the small town of Mount Isa in the Queensland Outback, having migrated from Namibia. He went on to become head of Asia for Macquarie Capital, global head of Macquarie’s Telecom, Media, Entertainment & Technology and Financial Services practices, chief operating officer for Macquarie Capital Advisers, chief executive of RedBridge Grant Samuel, and then global head of investment banking for the international arm of China’s largest securities firm, CITIC Securities. Andrew is, or has been, a chair or director for organisations such as Advance Global Australians, Asia Society Australia, the Australia Foundation UK, the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, the Australian Ballet Foundation UK, the Australia-Japan Business Cooperation Committee, the Bell Shakespeare Company, the Europe Australia Business Council, Genea Biomedx and PRP Diagnostic Imaging. He has degrees in Economics and Asian Studies, and has also studied at Tsinghua University and at the Harvard Business School.