Title Turning point : Australians choosing their future / Hugh Mackay

Published Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 1999

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Description xxxv, 316 pages ; 23 cm Contents The big picture: crosscurrents of confusion ... undercurrents of hope -- 1. Anzac Day: yearning for a festival that defines us -- 2. Baby boomers: catch-up time -- 3. Control: should we lock everyone up and be done with it? -- 4. Diversity: hands up, all those 'typical' Australians -- 5. Egalitariansim: still dreaming of equal opportunity -- 6. Food: healthy eating: much more than the food -- 7. Grey power: 'Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?' -- 8. Heroes: the new frontier -- 9. Information: Can we know too much? -- 10. Job insecurity: changing the way we think about work -- 11. Kooris: reconciliation and those good ol' Aussie values -- 12. Leadership: please explain us to ourselves -- 13. Marriage and the family: is marriage going out of fashion? -- 14. Nostalgia: let's get sex and violence of TV and back on the streets, where they belong' -- 15. Options: 'Hanging loose' may be a health hazard -- 16. Persuasion: the meaning of brands is changing -- 17. Quality of life:life is getting better ... and worse -- 18. Republic: the people have their say -- 19. Spirituality ... or sport?: seeking heaven on earth -- 20. Technology: why the Luddites had a point -- 21. Unravelling: reweaving the social fabric -- 22. Village: it's not where you live, but how you live -- 23. Women and men: are we there yet, Mum? -- 24. Xenophobia and politics: why Hanson was good for us -- 25. 'Young and free': give us time -- 26. Zeitgeist: the spirit of the times Analysis Aboriginal reconciliation Attitudes Australia - Social conditions Australia - Social life and customs Federal issue Hanson, Pauline Multiculturalism National identity Political leadership Referenda Republicanism Social change Social conditions Social values State issue Trends, Long term Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 303-308 Subject Australia -- Social conditions. Australia -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs -- Australia. Nationalism. Social change -- Australia. National characteristics, Australian. Social values -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 1990-2001 Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 1990-2001 Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 Author Mackay, Hugh. LC no. 00303432 ISBN 0732910013

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