Historical information

The author tracks Australia's achievement of power and wealth through its natural resources and sheer luck. Horne uses the phrase "the lucky country" as a pejorative; he believes that Australians showed a lack of innovation and enterprise and were second rate politically and economically. Ironically, the phrase is now widely used to describe Australia in a complimentary way.

Horne wrote a second book called "Death of the Lucky Country".

Significance

A critique of Australia's political and economic achievements as an industrialised nation up until the 1960s.

Physical description

Paper; book.

Front cover: black background; artistic impression - man in hat holding a glass of beer with ocean in the background.

Inscriptions & markings

Front cover: author's name, title and price.