Advance Australia … Where?: How we’ve changed, why we’ve changed, and what will happen next
Hachette Livre, $35 pb, 356 pp
The big picture
Advance Australia … Where? is such an eye-catching pun on Australia’s national anthem that it is no wonder that it has been used, with slight variations, as the title of at least eight books and pamphlets since World War II. Such publications have tended to express an individual author’s vision for the nation. In contrast, the latest Advance Australia … Where?, written by Hugh Mackay, mainly discusses current trends in public opinion, although it includes a few cautious predictions about the future and a number of suggestions for social reform.
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Advance Australia … Where?: How we’ve changed, why we’ve changed, and what will happen next
by Hugh Mackay
Hachette Livre, $35 pb, 356 pp
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