Book Launch - The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away by Peter Hartcher
Join Asialink for the Melbourne launch of The Sweet Spot, launched by The Hon. John Brumby and featuring a conversation between Peter Hartcher and ABC television's Jim Middleton.
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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.
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 is a contrasting model. 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.
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Peter Hartcher is the political and international editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. He has won both the Gold Walkley award for journalism and the Citibank award for business reporting. His 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. |
Copies of The Sweet Spot will be available for purchase on the evening and Peter Hartcher will be signing copies of the book.
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Monday 26th March 2012 | |
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6.30pm - 8.00pm |
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| VENUE: |
Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre The University of Melbourne (Cnr Swanston Street and Monash Road, Parkville) |
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| REGISTER: |
Register Online - Registrations close Thursday 22 March 2012 |