Recognising Australian oligarchy

And organising to beat it

I’ve just finished reading and writing about a new book by Julianne Schultz called The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation, and a full review will be published shortly.

IN the meantime, I wanted to pick up on what I think is its central lesson.

The book is a tremendously interesting and thorough account of, if not our national soul—a co…