As I read The Education of Young Donald Trilogy by one of the all-time great journalists, Donald Horne, it served as a reminder to ask more questions of our parents and grandparents before it’s too late.
In their book, The Locked-up Country a play on Donald Horne’s The Lucky Country Tom Chodor and Sharar Hameiri meticulously chronicle how governments opted for seemingly unthinkable measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Fred Fuentes reviews.
Canberra in those far-off days was regarded as a joke by the rest of Australia. The essence of this ridicule was the notion of a 'Bush Capital' making even less impression on the visitor than such neighbouring country towns as Goulburn. compared to the great coastal cities, whence most of Canberra’s population was embarrassingly unimpressive