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Australia’s boom is back, but can we avoid past mistakes?
Australia's Second Chance
What our history tells us about our future
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368 pages
- Release Date
17 July 2017
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Summary
Most nations don’t get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world’s 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 we’re 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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143783640 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143783645 |
| Author: | George Megalogenis |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 17 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
George Megalogenis
George Megalogenis is an author and journalist with three decades’ experience in the media.
- The Australian Moment won the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the 2012 Walkley Award for Non-fiction, and formed the basis for his ABC documentary series Making Australia Great.
- Faultlines
- The Longest Decade
- Australia’s Second Chance
- Balancing Act, which contains two of his Quarterly Essays:
- Trivial Pursuit - Leadership and the End of the Reform Era (Quarterly Essay No. 40)
- Balancing Act - Australia Between Recession and Renewal (Quarterly Essay No. 61)
- Exit Strategy - Politics After the Pandemic (Quarterly Essay No. 82)
- The Football Solution (most recent book)
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