Quarterly Essay - Fair Share: Country and City in Australia

For many decades Australia was the country that rode on the sheep’s back. No more – now we are a country of mining and services. In the new QE, one of Australia’s most original and respected political thinkers, Judith Brett, looks at what this has meant for the country and the city in our politics and culture. What will be the fate of rural and regional Australia in an era of economic rationalisation, water cutbacks, climate change, droughts and flooding rain? Does urban Australia care for or understand the country anymore?

Presenters

Judith Brett

Judith Brett is the author of two bestselling Quarterly Essays, Exit Right and Relaxed and Comfortable. She is also the author of the award-winning Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People, Ordinary People’s Politics (with Anthony Moran) and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard. She is professor of politics at La Trobe University.

Don Watson

Don Watson is an author, essayist and speechwriter.