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Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream
Author | : Stan Grant |
Publisher | : Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2016-11-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1863958894 |
In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cultural, sporting, intellectual and social – that we see today. Yet this flourishing co-exists with the boys of Don Dale, and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation. Grant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life, and argues eloquently that history is not destiny; that culture is not static. In doing so, he makes the case for a more capacious Australian Dream. ‘The idea that I am Australian hits me with a thud. It is a blinding self-realisation that collides with the comfortable notion of who I am. To be honest, for an Indigenous person, it can feel like a betrayal somehow – at the very least, a capitulation. We are so used to telling ourselves that Australia is a white country: am I now white? The reality is more ambiguous … To borrow from Franz Kafka, identity is a cage in search of a bird.’ —Stan Grant, The Australian Dream
Quarterly Summary of Australian Statistics
Author | : Australia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : |
The Idea of a Christian Society
Author | : T. S. Eliot |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0544358570 |
One of the twentieth century’s great thinkers and writers explores what it means to incorporate Christian values into our worldly lives. Originally delivered in 1939 at Corpus Christi College, these three lectures by the renowned poet and playwright T. S. Eliot address the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems. With sincerity and intellectual rigor, the Nobel Prize winner asks whether—and how—it is possible for Christianity to coexist with Western democracy and capitalism.