The Lucky Country [6 ed.] 9781742531571

With an introduction by Hugh Mackay. 'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its

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The Lucky Country [6 ed.]
9781742531571

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Donald Horne

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Table of contents :
INTRODUCTION BY HUGH MACKAY
INTRODUCTION TO THE THE FIFTH EDITION
NOTES TO THE FOURTH EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PROLOGUE
Peopled from all over Asia
Chapter 1 THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM
Innocent happiness
Nation without a mind
Chapter 2 WHAT IS AN AUSTRALIAN?
The first suburban nation
Fair go, mate
Having a good time
Give it a go
Racketeers of the mediocre
Chapter 3 SENSES OF DIFFERENCE
Eleven cities
The bush
The wowsers
Catholics
Snobs
Cultural breakthrough
Women
Migrants – how assimilated?
The underprivileged
Chapter 4 BETWEEN BRITAIN AND AMERICA
Lost bearings
Looking to Britain
Looking to America
Provincial Australia
A republic?
Chapter 5 LIVING WITH ASIA
What is Asia?
The power situation
Images of Asia
Racism in Australia: White Australia
Racism in Australia: Aborigines
Attitudes to Oceania
Chapter 6 MEN AT WORK
Men of business
Open spaces
The unions
Chapter 7 MEN IN POWER
Who runs Australia?
From America – federalism
From Britain – Parliaments”
Australia’s four-party system: the struggle for the Labour Movement
The four-party system: ‘tensions’ of the Coalition
The bureaucracy
The pressure groups
What’s in it for him?
Chapter 8 THE AGE OF MENZIES
The great survivor
The Age of Menzies
After Menzies
Chapter 9 FORMING OPINIONS
Censors
Schools
Images of life
The ‘academics’
The Press
The intellectuals
Chapter 10 THE LUCKY COUNTRY
Living on our luck
Will the luck last?
INDEX

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