02573nam 2200529 450 991045980670332120200520144314.01-922231-33-9(CKB)3710000000313282(EBL)1887583(SSID)ssj0001498254(PQKBManifestationID)12562886(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001498254(PQKBWorkID)11500092(PQKB)10456295(MiAaPQ)EBC1887583(Au-PeEL)EBL1887583(OCoLC)860699792(EXLCZ)99371000000031328220190107h20112013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe sweet spot how Australia made its own luck- and could now throw it all away /Peter HartcherCollingwood, VIC :Black Inc.,2011.©20131 online resource (322 p.)Includes index.1-86395-638-7 Front cover; Copyright; Title page; Contents; Dedication; The Sweet Spot; 1. Gold; 2. Success and failure; 3. Ashes and ore; 4. Come the revolution?; 5. Low-fat country; 6. Destined to fail; 7. Would you like some rights with your flogging?; 8. The racket; 9. The heavy armour; 10. I dare you; 11. On our own; 12. I expect you to die; 13. The third phase; 14. Free-market Hong Kong or socialist France?; 15. Supermodel kryptonite; 16. How to blow it; 17. Why the world needs a new model; AcknowledgmentsNew updated editionThis book will change the way you think about your country...Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years. So how did it happen and why don't we care?In The Sweet Spot Peter Hartcher takes readers on a vastly entertaining and thought-provoking tour through Australian politics and history. He 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 jAustraliaPolitics and governmentAustraliaHistoryAustraliaSocial policyAustraliaEconomic policyElectronic books.320.994Hartcher Peter890020MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459806703321The sweet spot1988465UNINA