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The rise and rise of the Australian elites

Say goodbye to the lucky country

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

I had the fascinating experience of having the author of The Lucky Country lecture me back in 1974. It was a moment when I started to realise that really important information can be given very dryly. But maybe that was just me trying to understand this thing called ‘university’, given that none of my family had been there before.

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