The Quarter Acre Block - The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas

We love a sunburnt country as long as it stays on the far side of a picket fence. Partitioning off our own little parts of the wide brown land, and replacing the sprawling menace of the Australian bush with the reassuring symmetry of the Hills Hoist, we’re all living the great suburban dream.

Presenters

Alan Saunders

Alan Saunders is a broadcaster on ABC Radio National.

Mark Davis

Mark Davis is an author and academic. He has written for most of Australia’s major newspapers and is a regular commentator on radio and a blogger. His most recent book is The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s. He is Director of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Jane-Frances Kelly

Since moving to Australia in 2004, Jane-Frances Kelly has worked as a senior adviser to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Boston Consulting Group, the Vice-Chancellor at Melbourne University, the Chief Commissioner at Victoria Police, and the Victorian and Queensland Premier’s Departments.