Mind of the Nation by Michael Wesley women’s-history reflecting the important role young-adult

reflecting the important role young-adult fiction plays in shaping our current generation of readers

Claire Dunn quits a comfortable life to spend a year off the grid in a wilderness survival program

a professor who refused to confine himself to the narrow specialisations of the academy

‘Kim McGrath has trawled the national archives to produce the smoking gun on Australia's callous betrayal of the people who supported our commandos in World War II

This book gathers the recollections of historians

Mind of the Nation by Michael Wesley women’s-history reflecting the important role young-adultIn this thought provoking and timely examination, academic and writer Michael Wesley asks what Australians really think and how they feel about our universities, and where to next? In 1964, Donald Horne wrote in his classic The Lucky Country that in a sense Australia does not have a mind. Intellectual life exists but has no established relation to practical life. For Horne, Australias universities were marginalised; they were places where clever men