Donald Horne dedicated a full chapter of The Lucky Country to challenge Australians to take Asia more seriously. In 1964, Australians clearly needed reminding that, rather than being just off the coast from Portsmouth, in fact, we were just off the coast of Denpasar. In the sixty years since the book’s publication, many of Horne’s ideas have
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Event details ‘Australians—the aristocrats of Asia?’ This event was held on 14 November 2025. View the lecture recording & transcript here. Donald Horne dedicated a full chapter of The Lucky Country to challenge Australians to take Asia more seriously. In 1964, Australians clearly needed reminding that, rather than being just off the coast from Portsmouth,
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