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Australia's Second Chance
What our history tells us about our future
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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 one of the world's great nations?
Our country's most insightful big-picture commentator, George Megalogenis crunches the numbers and weaves our history into a riveting argument, brilliantly chronicling our dialogue with the world and bringing welcome insight into the urgent question of who we are, and what we can become.
Megalogenis slaps history and politics and culture like mortar in and around his knowledge of economics and numbers to build compelling, even thrilling, theses about the country of his birth and where it stands in the world. - Tony Wright, Saturday Age
Timely and significant ... With characteristic lucidity, Megalogenis examines the connection between our collective prosperity and Australia's tendency at different times either to embrace or resist migrants. - James Ley, Weekend Australian
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Australia's Second Chance by George Megalogenis analyses Australia's historical immigration waves and their impact on the nation's prosperity. Reviews commend the author for providing a compelling account of how past immigration policies have shaped Australia, with the argument that fostering another immigration boom could help secure the country's future. Megalogenis is praised for his engaging narrative and insightful exploration of historical and economic trends.
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ISBN: 9780143783640
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 July 2017
Country: Australia
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 266g
Pages: 352
About the Author
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 the ABC documentary series Making Australia Great. He is also the author of Faultlines, The Longest Decade, Quarterly Essay 40- Trivial Pursuit - Leadership and the End of the Reform Era and Quarterly Essay 61- Balancing Act - Australia Between Recession and Renewal.
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