Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
-Dag Hammarskjold
Can you ever think too much about freedom? Not in my book. Paperback Edition
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Lets see where fate takes us
David Williamson is one of this country's acutest social observers. His latest assessment of the state of Australia's soul appears in the form of the 2005 Sir Rupert Hamer Lecture at Melbourne's Swinburne University, which has been reworked as an article in today's edition of The Bulletin.
If Australia were a ship, where would it be headed? The easy-going assumption of aspirational Australia that the destination is unending prosperity (and more cut-price deals) will not save us from the rocks of an uncertain future. David Williamson reports.
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