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Birth of the sophisticates

Fifty years ago, <em>The Lucky Country</em> helped create a whole new breed of Australian

8 November 2014

9:00 AM

8 November 2014

9:00 AM

When Bob Dylan released The Times they are A-Changin’ in 1964, Donald Horne was putting the finishing touches to his own seditious work, The Lucky Country. Dylan’s recalcitrant ‘senators and congressmen’ appear as Robert Menzies and Arthur Calwell, a prime minister and opposition leader who are ‘exiles in their own century… images of obsolescence…’ Time they made way for ‘the New Generation, the men who see Australia in more sophisticated terms,’ wrote Horne.

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