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The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - and Could Now Throw It All Away.
by Hartcher, Peter
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1863956387
- ISBN 13
- 9781863956383
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Black Inc., 2013. 2nd or revised ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, minimal edgewear. 289 pp. Revised edition. Does Australia now have the best living conditions in the world? Is our country both fair and free? Are we the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past 20 years? Takes readers on a vastly entertaining and thought-provoking tour through Australian politics and history. 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. How we could now throw our success away if we don't recognise our strengths and demand true leadership of our politicians. Australia's prosperity was not built on dumb luck. In a time when the authoritarian success story of China is strong, Australia offers a better model: a democratic success story. 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17950
- Title
- The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - and Could Now Throw It All Away.
- Author
- Hartcher, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 2nd or revised ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1863956387
- ISBN 13
- 9781863956383
- Publisher
- Black Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- australian society
- Bookseller catalogs
- AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....