The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation
Allen & Unwin, $34.99 pb, 472 pp
Society
The figure in the carpet
The stories we tell ourselves
by Robert Phiddian •
The queen and the duke of Edinburgh watching stockmen round up cattle near Alice Springs, 1963 (Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy)
A new monarch succeeded the day I sat down to write this review about the idea of Australia. Prime Minister Albanese, in a blessedly unpoliticised speech about Elizabeth II’s death, was direct in announcing that he and the governor-general would be heading to London, ‘where we will meet the king’.
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The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation
by Julianne Schultz
Allen & Unwin, $34.99 pb, 472 pp
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