A New Australia

Australia is ruled by false ideas.

That is why things are not working. That is why our society is disintegrating and the land is degrading.

Neoliberalism has been an economic failure and a social disaster. Our rulers are stuck in colonial mentalities and propelling us towards a catastrophic war. The climate is rapidly worsening.

A New Australia dissects fallacies and signposts a better path: a coherent web of well-based ideas that can benefit everyone, repair society and regenerate the land.

People are innately social. Absent irrational fear, people can get along. Markets and money can be harnessed for good. The world is abundant. …

We can live not just in hope, but in the knowledge we are making the world better.

We, the people, have the power.
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A New Australia is a broader, deeper and more meticulous examination of our Australian society than any other recent book, worthy as many of them are.

A New Australia is not interested in tweaking politics-as-usual: if we don’t know where we need to get to we will never find the ways to get there.

It does not just wish for better values, it presents the evidence that we are much better than our public conversation commonly implies, why we fall so short and how we can cultivate our better angels.

It does not just complain about mainstream economics, it brings rigorous analysis to its discrediting and replacement.