Everyone has heard of Donald Horne's "The Lucky Country" but hands up who's actually read it? Yep, thought so! Well, here's your chance to read its updated edition "The Rise and Fall of Australia - How a great nation lost its way" by Nick Bryant.
In this thoroughly entertaining and thought-provoking book, dealing with politics, racism, sexism, the country’s place in the region and the world, culture and sport, the author argues that Australia needs to discard the out-dated language used to describe itself, to push back against Lucky Country thinking, to celebrate how the cultural creep has replaced the cultural cringe and to stop negatively typecasting itself. Rejecting most of the national stereotypes, Nick Bryant sets out to describe the new Australia rather than the mythic country so often misunderstood not just by foreigners but Australians themselves.
Fail to read it at your own peril.
