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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Environment -- Geography -- Society -- Economy -- Balance. |
| Summary |
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. --Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Australia -- Social conditions.
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Australia. |
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Social conditions. |
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Australia -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Economic history. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Lowe, Ian. Lucky country?. St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2016 9780702253676 0702253677 |
| ISBN |
9780702255458 (electronic book) |
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0702255459 (electronic book) |
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9780702255465 |
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0702255467 |
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9780702255472 |
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0702255475 |
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9780702253676 |
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0702253677 |
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