Fortunes Fool: Australias Choices (Large Print)

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Australias prosperity relies on the continents extraordinary natural - primarily mineral - riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical and societal pressures now threaten the nations high living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of many trials to come. Lacklustre reform proposals are mired in ideological necrophilia: ideas which have been tried and failed. Politics is trading insults and slogans. Institutions lack the quality, skills, organisational memory and courage to deliver the required solutions. A disengaged citizenry are focused on preserving their entitled way of life, refusing to accept that the well of plenty is approaching exhaustion. Critics are derided as permanent professional pessimists, the doubting Irishman Hanrahan in John OBriens poem warning of roon. Cognitive dissonance is a national religion. Written in accessible, acerbic prose, Fortunes Fool cuts through these issues to expose Australias current dilemmas and choices. It dissects the pandemic, global trends, Australias narrow house and holes economy and its dependency on China, spotlighting a political paralysis that must be overcome and the changes that are urgently needed. For Australians remotely concerned about their own future and their childrens, as well as the countrys, Fortunes Fool is essential reading.