The Lucky Country Reinventing Australia

Author : Ian Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781458737212
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Country? written by Ian Lowe and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we reinvent the Lucky Country? In 1964, Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run mainly by second - rate people who share its luck' in his iconic book. Now, more than five decades later, internationally respected scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe shows that little has changed after generations of short - sighted leadership. In his frank and fearless way, Lowe assesses the state of Australia in four key areas: our environment, population and society, geographical position, and unrelenting pursuit of economic growth. Highlighting that the global economy and the environment are in crisis, Lowe illustrates the need - and the opportunity - to transform Australia into the world - leading model of sustainable development that we have the potential to become. A must - read, The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia challenges us all to consider the kind of future we want for our country and communities.

Author : Ian Lowe
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702255467
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucky Country? written by Ian Lowe and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we reinvent the Lucky Country? Fifty years ago author Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run by second-rate people', adding that our leaders are mostly unaware of events that surround them. The good fortune continued when our wide brown land proved to contain bountiful resources of saleable minerals, allowing successive generations of second-rate leaders to create an illusion of economic progress by liquidating those assets. But a crisis is approaching, driven by irresponsible encouragement of population growth rates typical of poor developing countries. In this polemic work, Ian Lowe will assess the state of Australia and whether we can retain our status of the Lucky Country.

Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Sydney] : Angus and Robertson [in association with Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Country written by Donald Horne and published by Sydney] : Angus and Robertson [in association with Penguin Books. This book was released on 1964 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by George Timothy Ryan.

Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780522852226
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On How I Came to Write 'the Lucky Country' written by Donald Horne and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication in 1964 of The Lucky Country changed the way that Australians thought about themselves. This work is an extract from Horne's memoirs that recalls the personal and public circumstances, which led him to write The Lucky Country.

Author : Ryan Cropp
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 174382324X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donald Horne written by Ryan Cropp and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating biography of a brilliant man who captured the nation's imagination and boldly showed Australians who we were and how we could change In the 1960s, Donald Horne offered Australians a compelling reinterpretation of the Menzies years as a period of social and political inertia and mediocrity. His book The Lucky Country was profoundly influential and, without doubt, one of the most significant shots ever fired in Australia's endless culture war. Ryan Cropp's landmark biography positions Horne as an antipodean Orwell, a lively, independent and distinct literary voice 'searching for the temper of the people, accepting it, and moving on from there'. Through the eyes -- and unforgettable words -- of this preternaturally observant and articulate man, we see a recognisable modern Australia emerge. 'A compulsive read about a writer who shaped the way we Australians think about ourselves' --Judith Brett 'Unmissable for anybody interested in the intellectual life of this country' --Sean Kelly

Author : Donald Horne
Publisher : La Trobe University Press
ISBN 13 : 192543575X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donald Horne written by Donald Horne and published by La Trobe University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Australia’s leading thinkers for close to fifty years, Donald Horne was probably the best Australian non-fiction writer of his generation. This definitive collection of Horne’s writing, thoughtfully selected by his son, Nick, tells the story of his life and intellectual development. From a position of doubting whether change was possible, he eventually became a proponent of the sensible reform necessary for Australia to prosper in a changing world. Horne made the case for a more open, modern, intelligent Australia, most famously in his seminal book The Lucky Country. Selections from this work sit alongside pithy reflections on Australian history and culture, as well as vivid autobiographical writing. With an introduction by Nick Horne and a biographical essay by Glyn Davis, this important book honours and illuminates the man who helped the nation understand itself. ‘He was a great clarifier ... of many of the problems and dilemmas of society.’ —Frank Moorhouse ‘An independent, vigorous critic.’ —Malcolm Fraser Donald Horne AO was a leading public intellectual for nearly fifty years. He was the author of The Lucky Country and The Education of Young Donald, and many other books and essays. He edited The Bulletin, chaired the Australia Council, and, in a late career change, broadened the idea of what it means to be an academic. He died in 2005.

Author : Liam Cooper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811311684
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Eco-Communities in Australia written by Liam Cooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbourne. These novel responses to the ecological crisis – real social laboratories that attempt to manifest a vision of the ‘eco-city’ in microcosm – offer substantial new insights into the concept and creation of sustainable urban communities, their attempts to cultivate ways of living that are socially and ecologically nourishing, and their often fraught relationship to the capitalist city beyond. These studies also suggest the opportunities and limitations of moving beyond demonstration projects towards wider urban transformation, as well as exposing the problems of accessibility and affordability that thwart further urban eco-interventions and the ways that existing projects can exacerbate issues of gentrification and privilege in a socially polarised city. Amidst the challenges of the capitalist city, climate change and ecological crisis, this book offers vital lessons on the potential of urban sustainability in future cities.

Author : Hans A. Baer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000455971
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia written by Hans A. Baer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition and Australian Labor parties. As a highly developed country, Australia is punching above its weight in terms of contributing to greenhouse gas emissions despite rising temperatures, droughts, water shortages and raging bushfires, storm surges and flooding, and the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. Drawing upon both archival and ethnographic research, Hans Baer examines Australian climate politics at the margins, namely the Greens, the labour union, the environmental NGOs, and the grass-roots climate movement. Adopting a climate justice perspective which calls for "system change, not climate change" as opposed to the conventional approach of seeking to mitigate emissions through market mechanisms and techno-fixes, particularly renewable energy sources, this book posits system-challenging transitional steps to shift Australia toward an eco-socialist vision in keeping with a burgeoning global socio-ecological revolution. Accessibly written and including an interview with renowned comedian and climate activist Rod Quantock OAM, this book is essential reading for academics, students and general readers with an interest in climate change and climate activism.

Author : David Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527535991
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intergenerational Education for Adolescents towards Liveable Futures written by David Lloyd and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will provide eco-socially-oriented science and environmental educators with a diverse set of examples of how science and environmental learning for students and their co-learner teachers can be enacted in ways which contribute to their understanding of, commitment to and capabilities towards, living for a more eco-socially just and, therefore, more sustainable world. Science and environmental learning is set within a challenging framework, one that entails critical, transdisciplinary learning and acting, and values all the human and other-than-human beings sharing Earth’s rich, but finite, resources. The text asserts that ethical contemporary science and environmental education, which practitioners might find within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), will have at centre-stage not merely more factual knowledge, but also the development of learners’ affect and behaviour towards acting for eco-social justice. This will demand that learners more fully appreciate not only the necessity to transition swiftly to living within planetary boundaries, but also the requirements of ethical living—that humans share health and well-being more equally with their own and all other species. Further, the book proposes that eco-socially responsible science and environmental education must be set within a transdisciplinary and integral framework, one in which curriculum and pedagogy are embedded in everyday practice. In this transition project from unsustainable inequities to eco-social justice, teachers and community leaders need to work with their students/citizens in envisioning preferable futures, and developing shared knowledge, values, dispositions, courage and capabilities to work towards such futures, and in genuine attempts at affecting them.

Author : Jerry D. Marx
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038422622
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Healthy Communities: Implications for Individual and Societal Well-Being written by Jerry D. Marx and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Reinventing Healthy Communities: Implications for Individual and Societal Well-Being" that was published in Social Sciences