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The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - and Could Now Throw it All Away

Peter Hartcher

9781863954976

Black Inc


History; Sociology; Politics & government; Economic history

Paperback

288 pages

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Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years. So how did it happen and why don't we care? In The Sweet Spot Peter Hartcher takes readers on a vastly entertaining and thought-provoking tour through Australian politics and history. He shows how a convict colony could have become a banana republic but didn't, how Australia came through the global financial crisis - it wasn't just the mining boom - and how we could now throw our success away if we don't recognise our strengths and demand true leadership of our politicians. Hartcher argues that Australia's prosperity was not built on dumb luck. In a time when the authoritarian success story of China is strong, Australia offers a better model: a democratic success story. Is it perfect? Of course not. But on some of the most important and apparently intractable problems of the modern world, Australia, believe it or not, is as good as it gets. And the beaches aren't bad either.

By:   Peter Hartcher
Imprint:   Black Inc
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 15mm,  Width: 234mm,  Spine: 156mm
Weight:   421g
ISBN:  

9781863954976


ISBN 10:   186395497X
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   November 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock at Abbey's Bookshop
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Peter Hartcher's books include Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars and To the Bitter End: The Dramatic Story Behind the Fall of John Howard and the Rise of Kevin Rudd.

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