There is an odd disjunction in Australian public life at the moment – we know we are doing better than 
the rest of the world economically, but this is failing to translate into a sense of well-being or ambition 
about the future.

The problem is that golden moments like this do not come around very often – if we fail to grasp this one to think and act ambitiously about the future, the moment will pass; other countries will fill the gaps and we will look back and wonder how we let it slip through our fingers.

It is time to be bold and pragmatically ambitious.

By publishing this special e-book Griffith REVIEW hopes to contribute to a lively, proactive discussion.

Download the complete e-book (PDF format) HERE.

Download individual articles from the e-book (PDF format) below:

Brendan Gleeson – Not beyond imagining – Continue the conversation HERE

Alison Broinowski – For us all – Continue the conversation HERE

Julian Meyrick – F**k popular culture

Cathy Hunt – Beyond the ‘smell of an oily rag’

Paul Newbury – Perspectives of identity in being Australian

Marcia Langton – Mining the Mabo legacy

Gary Clark – From little things social catastrophes grow

dale spender – Spelling and making sense

Caroline Lenette – From this time forward I pledge

John Armstrong & Carsten Murawski – Merchants of light – Continue the conversation HERE

Robert Nelson – Thinking for money – Continue the conversation HERE

Ann Moyal – A necessary marriage

Tapan Sarker – Securing tomorrow’s Australia today – Continue the conversation HERE

Chris Gibson – A country that makes things – Continue the conversation HERE

David Ritter – A market for a nation

Rodney Crisp – The Republic of Australia and New Zealand

Nadine Hood – Collective solutions for collective problems

Rae Norris – Blind prejudice, blinkered vision