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Australian Books

Progress and its critics

27 April 2013

6:00 PM

27 April 2013

6:00 PM

The Lucky Culture and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class
By Nick Cater
HarperCollins, $29.99, pp 309
ISBN 9781743098134


Australia is a ‘lucky country’, said Donald Horne in his celebrated book, ‘run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.’ By contrast, The Lucky Culture, Nick Cater’s counter-thesis, holds that we are over-influenced and over-analysed by second-rate intellectuals who are incapable of counting their blessings.

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